On 22 Sep 2005 01:23:48 +0000, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Geoff, > > I readily admit that I don't know much about how bittorrent works, so > maybe I will say something stupid. Who cares - it will not be the > first or the last time... > > Assuming you use a client with a CLI, and to download a bunch of files > you do sth like > > $ download $files > > won't a simple for loop, like > > $ for f in $files; do download $f; done > > do what you want?
That's not the way Bittorrent works - it works by having the client pointed to a "seed" which lists files and where can they be fetched right now. My question here is: Can you maybe download the seed and split it to multiple seeds, one for each file? If so then you might be able to do as Oleg suggests? (I just don't have the time to try this myself). And an unrelated question: Once I downloaded a large image (CentOS 4.1 DVD) and quit the client, can I somehow bring the client up in a way that will offer my copy for upload to others, even if I don't download anymore? I have debian Sarge on my machine now. Cheers, --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
