rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (11/19/90)
Archive-name: ftp/30-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Original-subject: Re: FTP 512 or 1024 byte blocks? Archive-site: uunet.uu.net [192.48.96.2] Archive-directory: /networking Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In <847@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes: . Why is it that every manual I've seen about ftp, says that the hash .option will cause the printing of a hash character every 1024 bytes .received, yet every implementation of ftp I've used prints the hash .every 512 bytes? Because the code that implements the hash-mark printing is usually done in a real sloppy manner: while ((i = read(socket, buffer, 1024)) > 0) { if (hash_on) putchar('#'); write(newfile, buffer, i); } This is fixed in the FTP available on uunet.uu.net in the directory ~/networking. (That version has since had other fixes, like per-host macros, etc; email to me if you can beta-test.) /r$ -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.