On Mon, 05 May 2003 08:55:13 -0500, Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> 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

smartass ;)

-- 
John Hebert
System Engineer
I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com

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