JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 23 Dec 2001:
> Not quite a Mozilla question, but no, I've never seen anything like > that, and I download all kinds of crazy (and way-too-big) crappola. > What I do see quite often is both IE and Mozilla crapping out > during such a long download, especially over HTTP. Neither > development team apparently has ever heard about the fact that > Zmodem back in the Paleozoic Era could recover interrupted > downloads, and all semi-modern FTP servers (don't know about HTTP) > support resuming as well. Guess "append" is just too advanced a > concept in this Visual Basic / Java / > dumb-it-down-seven-shades-to-tuesday world we live in. > A) It is well documented that IE has problems downloading large files. I seem to recall Netscape's own webpage at one point saying "You may have to download an earlier version of Netscape, and then download Communicator 4.x", because IE would bomb before the whole thing was done B) Mozilla is C/C++, JS, and XUL. No VB or Java necessary -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
