From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: download time?
Date: Mon,  2 Oct 2000 11:40:19 +0100
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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>>The web page has a link to the file by way of (apparently) a
>>non-existent path.  Moreover, the "directory" after "/magic/9down"
>>is different (and very long) each time you register to download.

i think you'll find that if you record that name (eg, bookmark it), it will
be valid for several days, and can be reused with a command or browser
that can start fetching bytes where the last attempt last left off.