Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 21:10 schrieb Carlos E. R.: > The Tuesday 2006-02-28 at 08:08 +0100, David Wright wrote: > > I think it is more a case that some software is still compiled without > > big file support, so the files over 2GB either crap-out or they get > > truncated. > > > > Firefox, for example, has problems with large ISO's, downloading the > > Debian DVD image with firefox made a 2GB file out of the original ~4GB > > ISO on the server. > > I would never dare to dowload such a big file using firefox or mozilla... > I wouldn't download even a 10 Mb file with it, it has barfed on me at > mid-download so many times on me... :-(
Just downloaded 6GB from IBM using their download manager Java program under Firefox, although that wasn't one file, the biggest file was only 1.8GB. Apart from the odd server reset I've not seen any problems with it. Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
