My guess would be to read RFC 959. If it's not specified, then the decision may be implementation dependent. Also, this sounds like the wrong newsgroup to ask this question.
jliu - johnliu.net
> What do FTP servers do when file send fails durring a file upload? Are > partial files ever written? does ftp protocol cover this?
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