From kde-devel Tue May 07 00:18:12 2002 From: Troels Tolstrup Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 00:18:12 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Download manager X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=102073069228366 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > OTOH I missed today the ability to "queue transfers" so that one can > DnD several files one after the other onto an FTP site (e.g. from > different dirs), and the uploads happen sequentially (useful when the > number of simultaneous connections to the FTP site is limited, or > when the site is so slow and unreliable that one would prefer to > upload the things one at a time - but without having to keep an eye > on it). It sounds like it has been a looong time since you last tried to download a whole bunch of stuff through a normal dial-up modem. You need a lot of patience if you 45 mins into downloading a 25 meg file suddenly need to check your mail. Or if you wanted to download a bunch of stuff while asleep. I'm running a Linux From Scratch system, and i have downloaded everything through my 56K modem. A download manager was close to being a must. (ugh, X alone is 60 megs) I would queue 50 downloads from maybe 20 different sites and then just goto bed. When i got up they were all downloaded just fine. I don't even want to think about running 50 downloads at a time on a modem, they would keep timing out... And as an OT ending i will advertize a little for tar.bz2 files. For modem users the size difference between tar.gz and tar.bz2 is significant. To put numbers on it, the difference betwewn linux-2.4.18.tar.gz to linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2 is ~2.5 hours to ~2 hours on a 56K modem. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE81zlDmTmAA3i3lrERAqC1AJ9iGCTACUxVK+CL8sDYT+Zzf1RZbgCgnyG2 j3r8T+tquSKTY7KIR4ok5qk= =V7g4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<