At 11:27 PM 5/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: >the upgrades through a network, if I were inclined to use them. I trust >these tools, they are efficient and painless. On the Windoze side, I've >heard of 500MB service packs, is that true? Yet they fail to fix all the >bugs and they never can do as good a job as the distributed effort of free >software.
$ ncftpls -l ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/ | \ > awk 'BEGIN { X=0 } { X=X+$5 } END { print X } ' 423031617 $ ncftpls -l ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/ | \ > awk 'BEGIN { X=0 } { X=X+$5 } END { print X } ' 137523201 --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
