Dear Daniel,

In the curl's manpage, I can read the following the description on the
range option of curl:

 -r, --range <range>
          (HTTP/FTP/SFTP/FILE) Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial docu‐
           ment) from a HTTP/1.1, FTP or SFTP server or a local FILE.
           Ranges can be specified in a number of ways.

            0-499 specifies the first 500 bytes

I just wondered why not use 1, instead of 0, as the beginning counter
of the bytes number of a file?

If so, the above usage will looks like this:

1-500 specifies the first 500 bytes

It seems that this is more consistent with the concept of `the first
500 bytes' of a file.

Any hints on this?

Regards

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Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao_at_gmail.com>
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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