Re: (PM) improvement required for the ftp.livingston.com site..

Roy (garlic@garlic.com)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:51:01 -0800

Also be very careful. Many times the download will be corrupted and you
won't know until you flash your portmaster and its garbage. PMCONSOLE
does not check to ensure the image is valid.

It would be VERY NICE is Livingston at least posted the checksums of the
file

I now use FTP for all downloads.

Samudra E Haque wrote:
>
> Is it just me, or have any of you noticed that when downloading the binary
> files off of ftp.livingston.com (say ComOS images, Tech Notes, etc.) that
> unlike most other sites, (from within Netscape 4.04) no indication is
> received of the percentage of bytes transfered, or how many bytes have
> been sent down the computer so far.
>
> Is this something that has been set on that server to NOT report the file
> transfer sizes ? Also, on the web page it would be REAL nice to have some
> sort of clue as to what the sizes of the files should be when they are
> finally downloaded, otherwise perhaps the file would only be half
> downloaded and we wouldn't know it!
>
> (maybe this is already mentioned in the tech notes .. but how would I know
> that the technotes have been "fully" downloaded before I read 'em?
>
> Question: How difficult is it to setup a mirror site ? I'd like to
> volunteer to run a mirror site in this country.. who would I need to get
> permission from ?
>
> -samudra/bangladesh
>
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