From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 13:24: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B37B37B424; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13Sl7P-000ODV-00; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:55:51 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA81830; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:55:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:55:50 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: jamtat@citycom.com Cc: marko@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: download sizes Message-ID: <20000826195550.A74225@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <260800239.37581@134.48.35.169> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <260800239.37581@134.48.35.169> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jamtat@citycom.com wrote: > Perhaps there's a simpler way? Than trying to use an FTP client as a web browser? Of course there is. Use a real FTP client, then you can see the sizes in a directory listing. > Any further tips? Just a ballpark figure would suffice: > I'm not looking for anything terribly precise. The base bin distribution is probably 30-40MB, manpages which I strongly recommend are probably about 10MB. They're just guesses. Alternatively, count the number of files ending in a two letter suffix (.aa to .zz, though there are never enough to go to .zz). Each of those is exactly 235KB, so it's just a simple multiplication from there. The last one will be smaller, but that doesn't matter for your purposes. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message