Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:46:00 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org> To: David Merriman <merriman@1s.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISO vs ISO Message-ID: <3C8BD418.1030003@rambo.simx.org> References: <000001c1c83e$e05e2b80$0190a8c0@alpha>
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David Merriman wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >I'm trying to download the ISO images for 4.5 release, and have run >into an 'interesting' situation. > >If I try to download 4.5-install.iso with a web browser, it shows the >file size as 623M; if I try to download with WS_FTP, the file shows >as being only 81M. What blindingly obvious thing am I missing that >would explain the (apparent) discrepancy? > >I'm more inclined to believe the browser file size, and try to >download that way; but I'm on a dialup account, and cant' get the >whole thing in one 'session', and can't auto-resume. > >David Merriman > Several years in ISP tech support tells me that this is WS_FTP's fault. It is a nice program that has been around for ages, and usually works very well. However, it has some .. issues, in lack of a better word. Sometimes it shows the filesize wrong, sometimes it cant see certain files even though you know they are there, and sometimes it just does weird things. Have you tried downloading the file anyway? The fact that WS_FTP shows the filesize to be only 81M can not change the fact that the file is a lot bigger, and it will probably not stop downloading just because it hits 81M. Anyhow, there are hundreds of FTP clients out there, and IMO, a lot of them are better then WS_FTP. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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