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"That's the second time I've articulated the command. As such, in neither case was the man page required."

Nope all you posted this time was:

Commands may be abbreviated.  Commands are:
[download]

There's nothing about the command in question. Also, why link to documentation at all if it doesn't provide the information you claim it does?

"Maybe yes, maybe no."

The answer is no, but thanks for trying to argue that black is white. Your belief that comparing files by size can tell you that the file contents is the same is fundamentally wrong.

Regardless, my statement you "corrected" was valid. FTP does not have a way to compare files, it may (system dependant) have a method for reporting the size of a file, but there is no way to provide ftp a local and remote file to compare, size or anything else.

Update: s/believe/belief/

In reply to Re^7: Retrieve SNP information from UCSC genome browser by marto
in thread Retrieve SNP information from UCSC genome browser by ammalu89

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