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Subject: A suggestion to those collecting from ftp://38.168.214.175/pub

Author: Danniel Corbit

Date: 11:57:38 09/23/98


If you have a very slow connection, I suggest that you might get the smaller
files in the subdirectories [a-openings, b-openings, etc.] instead of the big
files [a.zip, b.zip, etc.]. The reason is that this is a development machine and
reboots frequently [probably at least once a day]. You might get 2/3 of a 40 meg
file and then get cut off. If you collect the subfiles [which, when put together
*form* the big files] then if the machine gets restarted, you will only lose a
few megs at most. I see a lot of slow connections [2K/sec or less] which are
pulling down the big files. One user did manage to perform a peak transfer rate
of 42,798K/sec on a large file [Probably T1]. At any rate, if you have a slow
machine, you might strongly consider gathering the subsections instead of the
whole thing in one bite.
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