Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <184670-22003712813343150@cantv.net> Reply-To: rodmedina AT cantv DOT net X-ORIGINATOR-IP: 200.44.16.27 From: "Rodrigo Medina" To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: No huge packets, please! Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:34:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello! First of all I want to congratulate all you people that have made possible CYGWIN+XFREE. I think that the whole is already a mature, wonderful product. In particular the new multiwindow feature of XWin is really cool. I have a petition to make: Have a little bit of mercy with us poor guys that have slow internet connections! For example at home I have a connection that most of the time is below 1kb/s, with such a speed to download XFree86-fnts (16.3Mb) takes at least 5 hours (but it can take much more). During such a long time the chances of losing a dialup connection are very high. What can you do? a) avoid making huge packets (say more than 8-10 Mb). I am sure that most huge packets, that are composed of many directories, can be splitted in some sensible way; or b) implement some way of downloading the packets with ftp, so one can use wget or similar programs capable of partial downloading; or c) make the cygwin setup program capable of partial downloading. Thanks in advance Rodrigo Medina rmedina AT ivic DOT ve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/