>>>>> "jt" == James A Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jt> On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 02:27:40PM +0000, Martin Carpenter wrote: >> Secondly, it'd be nice to have the size (in bytes) of the >> downloadable floppy images somewhere near the links: I performed >> several simultaneous unattended downloads, and the network >> connection obviously died sometime near the end. Result - lots of >> cut disks with "bad checksum" errors, and some confusion for me >> (and I tried re-downloading base5 several times, because I didn't >> know if it should be smaller than the rest or not... it is...). Ugh, this is the responsibility of your FTP client, IMHO, not the Install Manual. jt> The problem with this is that the documentation would not be jt> correct if the install files are updated and the sizes jt> change. Yes, there's that too. jt> Also, size alone does not guarantee that the downloaded jt> version is correct. The correct way to do this is to point to a jt> file that contains checksums for the files. Such a file exists, jt> md5sum.txt, in the install directory and should be linked from the jt> install docs. Yes, we do that now. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
