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From: erik@whip.sites.uiuc.edu (Erik Pennebaker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux or BSD?
Date: 18 Apr 1996 21:35:20 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) writes:

>lwilliam@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov writes in <4kcofg$55p@onramp.arc.nasa.gov>:

>>halting those of lower priority, and I've lost data packets while ftp'ing and
>>running as little as four other apps (not counting daemons or init).

>lost data packets while ftp'ing?  could you please elaborate?

I think he means that when he was using the ftp program his machine failed to
process all packets.  Not a problem in terms of data integrity, since they'll
be resent.


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What a horrible thing to say....

-Erik


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