Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: setup program problem MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:46:13 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Jeremy Beard" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g3NEB2O14055 > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Beard [mailto:rem120@hotmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 9:50 PM > There is no reference made to how large the > packages are in terms of file size. This is because (most) folk don't select packages based on size, but rather on content - what the package is/does. > this makes it a big inconvenience to > those like myself on modem connections where d/l'ing some > packages could take a few hours. How do you plan to avoid it? If you want apache, you have to download it. The real issue to me is that the downloads are not resumable, so you can't easily take several bites at a single large file. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/