Transfer only part of a file using TIdFTP?

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Subject:Transfer only part of a file using TIdFTP?
Posted by: Bo Berglund (bo.berglund@nospam.telia.com)
Date:Tue, 28 Oct 2008

I would like to know if it is possible to use TIdFTP to download only
a certain part of a (big) file.
The reason is that I want to get the first part of a number of files
where the data header is located so that the files can be flagged
based on contents in a directory listing. The files themselves are
between 2 and 8 Gb in size (video) so I cannot download all of them...
The header is only a few kb at the front of the file so by getting say
10 kb of each file I could make a contents based listing.

If possible, how would oe go about it?

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