From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 3 12:30:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17775 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:30:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17765 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:30:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA00440; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:30:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:30:31 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199812032030.MAA00440@apollo.backplane.com> To: Martin Cracauer Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed addition to fetch(1) References: <19981203200743.A861@cons.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy :Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii : :I plan to add this to fetch, unless anyone objects. : : -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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message