[OT] Free download of Linux Fromat for 24 hours

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Mar 4 20:58:13 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 21:41:55 +0100,
  Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> 
> How do these torrent downloads work, for instance with this PDF download? Say 
> for example If I get 90% of it downloaded, before I lose the torrent link. Am 
> I likely to be able to open the PDF, and view some of the pages, or am I 
> going to have all the pages, but bits and pieces missing from each of them?

Torrents don't pull in bytes in order. So pieces could be missing anywhere
in the file. Restarting the torrent should pick up where it left off though.




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