from the quill of Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> Better to standardise on rsync -rltvP.
OK. Everybody seems to be lost. Let's try this again. Please pay close
attention to the commands I use below AND their results:
$ ls -l cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 26206 Sep 22 11:42 cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm
$ sum cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm
35137 26
$ rsync -rltvP
rsync://ftp.sunet.se/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm
MOTD: Welcome to SUNET Archive, Sweden
[MOTD: snip]
receiving file list ... done
cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm
25981 (100%)
wrote 369 bytes read 25286 bytes 3018.24 bytes/sec
total size is 25981 speedup is 1.01
$ ls -l cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 25981 Oct 6 04:55 cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm
$ sum cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm
11786 26
OK, please notice:
From Cooker From 7.2 Final
Element Before rsync After rsync Difference
------- ------------ ----------- ----------
name cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm cdp-0.33-9mdk.i586.rpm n
size 26206 25981 y
sum 35137 11786 y
Why?
b.
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Brian J. Murrell