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

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