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Re: Slackware
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> IA>> > Ive started to download slackware-3.5.tar from ftp.cdrom.com
>
> IA>> I don't want to know what happens if it breaks in the middle...
>
> Nothing happens. I don't think that cdrom.com uses ftp-daemon that doesn't
> support reget. wget is wonderful tool for unattended copying of large
that tar file: I'll bet it doesn't really exist on that server, but it's
just a tar of a directory, therefore the server is making it for you on
the fly (nice of them) and wasting a lot of it's memory.
if you have 750 megs over when it breaks, and you do a reget, it needs to
tar all the files again up to that point (hoping none of them changed in
the middle) to the bitbucket, and then start piping them over to you.
I don't find any sense in transfering such huge files, that's all,
especially since you need to unpack it later anyway...
--
Ira Abramov <ira(a)scso.com> whois: IA58 (a linux enthusiast)
She sells cshs by the cshore. - Rob Malda
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- Re: Slackware
- From: "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" <frodo@sharat.co.il>