Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:30:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed addition to fetch(1) Message-ID: <199812032030.MAA00440@apollo.backplane.com> References: <19981203200743.A861@cons.org>
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:I plan to add this to fetch, unless anyone objects.
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: -s Ask server for size of file in bytes and print it to stdout.
: Do not actually fetch the file.
Looks useful, something like this could eventually be used in the far
flung future to estimate install times (over N packages) in an install
GUI, and to check packages for existance prior to trying to download
them.
-Matt
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