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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:08:53 +0200
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ports-jp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 8 days until 2.2.5...  Administrative notices.
Message-ID:  <19971015000853.28485@klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 02:08:57AM -0700
References:  <19971013225014.30732@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 02:08:57AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
>  * On Mon, Oct 13, 1997 at 03:56:57AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
>  * I know this is probably too late for 2.2.5, but I thought it might be
>  * worth mentioning anyway.  What do people think to putting the size of
>  * the tarball somewhere in the skeleton for each port?  This would be
>  * very helpful for people with poor Internet connectivity.  Quite a few
>  * times I've thought about installing a port, but wasn't sure how long
>  * a download I was letting myself in for.  Currently, the only way this
>  * can be done is by looking on the master site.
> 
> Hmm.  That is an interesting idea.

Another thing is, that it would be fine, if fetch would show
more infos about the download progress. Percent of downloaded
data, performance (K/sec), estimated time remaining.

When downloading large files it would be extremely useful.

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