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


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