Sender: crough45 AT amc DOT de Message-Id: <97Jul3.112653gmt+0100.16664@internet01.amc.de> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 10:31:15 +0100 From: Chris Croughton Mime-Version: 1.0 To: tudor AT cam DOT org Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP is in WAY too many pieces Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk Vic wrote: > -first I download the stuff to my server.The server of > my ISP is on a T3 so the download does not take that much. > -second I download the stuff to my computer.I use my modem > to the max (115200 bps with maximum compression).And I use > Zmodem protocol so if there is an error at 9.9 megs I try > a second time and it will start from 9.9 and continue. OK, so you're lucky. So? My access is via a shared 64Kbps link, when it works (often it goes down unpredictably). When I do get the files to this Unix machine I have to put it on floppies to transfer to my PC at home, because neither the Unix machine nor my PC is connected to the phone lines. If I try to pull a 10Mb file by FTP from anywhere. the chances of it getting to the end are from insignificant down to none. If I try to pull a 1.4Mb file they are better, and at least it's only taken half an hour to do it again instead of 3 hours. Or much more: pulling a 10Mb file might work one time in 10, so it could be 9 attempts (27 hours!) to get it in one piece. If I do it from my British machine it's more likely to work, but when it doesn't that much time would cost me quite a lot in phone charges (Britain does not have free calls except for cable, and my town isn't scheduled to get cable until into next century). There are other sites with a maximum connect time of one hour - you'd never get it... Plus, if I don't want all the files (and I don't - I'm not interested in emacs for example) I don't have to d/l one big lump with a load of things I don't want. > So I see no difference (but a bother to download many > small files) between the two... OK, for you it's no difference. For many other people it makes a lot of difference. The difference between it being usable and not, in fact. Chris C