From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP is in WAY too many pieces
Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:19:10 -0700
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A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> Mark Oliver wrote:
> 
> > yeah, i also think that DJGPP is in a lot of pieces. I would have
> > liked to download one big zipped file, but that's not the way it
> > works. Look in the file README.1ST available in the directory where
> > you are getting DJGPP.
> 
> did you consider that not everyone is on a high-speed link?

What does having a high-speed link have to do with downloading a large
file vs. a package in smaller pieces?

There is slight overhead for downloading each individual piece, and so
downloading the segments will be slightly slower.  But as an advantage, if
your download fails (slow links also tend to go down a lot), you don't
have to start completely from scratch.

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