On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Mani A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "Nalin Savara"  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > lol
> > >
> > > Keep laughing man... and yes; when I first saw that message; I was
> tempted
> > to write a small snippet of code to take a torrent file and a partially
> wget
> > gotten file---> and to convert the partially wget-ten file to a
> partially
> > gotten torrent.
> >
>
> The problem was with the unfinished Mandriva dvd dowload... I was not
> able to get faster mirrors... so I was looking for completing it with
> Ktorrent.

>> this could be done only if, you can find a torrent for mandriva dvd, that
contains exactly the same files and folders, so that when you start the
torrent in the same place where your partial stuff is, ktorrent is able to
find some already existing (downloaded) files. so, it'll continue from where
you stuck..!!



> Usually torrents are a bit slow (~100kbps)...but ok anyway.

>> and i thought torrents were much more reliable and faster (at least for
downloading complete distros.)

-- 
Sahil Dave
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