On 15/11/2007, andrewk9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason given for splitting the download into 3 was that old systems don't > like files bigger than 2GB. For example, old versions of wget stop > downloading at 2GB minus 1 byte. Personally, I find totally this bizarre > given this is 2007.
Actually, the main reason was not only that, but that the download servers hosting the files used to have problems with files >2GB (supposedly), and the fact that the number of completed downloads drops significantly once you go over a certain size unless folks are using a download manager (apparently). -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
