Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 19:55:50 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> 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> In-Reply-To: <260800239.37581@134.48.35.169> References: <260800239.37581@134.48.35.169>
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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
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