Dare I ask the question?

[James McKenzie]

Paul:

Thank you for this information.  I downloaded the files and will set 
them up sometime soon.  I'm dealing with a different problem concerning 
suspend/standby with an IBM A22p.

James McKenzie


Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 06:30, D. D. Brierton wrote:
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>>On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 05:10, James McKenzie wrote:
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>>>Is the Torrent incorporated with FC, or is it something that I have to 
>>>get at another location?  If the latter applies, how about a source?
>>>      
>>>
>>BitTorrent client software for Windows and Mac is available here:
>>
>>http://bittorrent.com/download.html
>>
>>Client software for FC2 is available from here:
>>
>>http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc2/RPMS.newrpms/bittorrent-3.4.2-1.rhfc2.nr.noarch.rpm
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>
>I've got RPMs for RH9, FC1 and FC2 at
>http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/
>
>Also available there (for FC2 only) is a useful little program called
>GTorrentViewer that will show you information about a torrent, such as
>how many people are seeding it (have full copies); torrents without
>seeds are best avoided as you can spend a long time downloading 90% of a
>distro and then find that nobody has a copy of the remaining 10%.
>
>  
>
>>On Windows and Mac you'll have to ask elsewhere, as I don't use those
>>platforms. On FC download a suitable BitTorrent RPM such as the one
>>above and install it. If you're not using FC2 then use google to find a
>>BitTorrent RPM for whatever distro you are using. Then when FC3 comes
>>out find the link on the download page to the torrent file, which will
>>be a file ending with the suffix *.torrent. Download the *.torrent file
>>(it's only small) with your browser. In a terminal, cd to the directory
>>you downloaded the *.torrent file to and then issue the following
>>command:
>>
>>btdownloadcurses.py <torrentname>.torrent
>>
>>replacing <torrentname> with the actual name of the torrent file.
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>
>Alternatively you can have the BitTorrent client get the torrent file
>for you:
>
>btdownloadcurses.py --url http://www.example.com/xyz.torrent
>
>I find it useful to limit the upload rate so that there is still some
>bandwidth left for mail, web access etc. (I only have a 512/256 kbit DSL
>line):
>
>btdownloadcurses.py --responsefile xya.torrent --max_upload_rate 20
>
>The upload rate is specified in kilobytes per second.
>
>Paul.
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