Hi, > Another feature you should implement if possible is the use of gzip > in your rulebase download scripts. This can reduce the bandwidth > required for your download significantly (typically 70% or more!). > > Here is a link to the mail archive that describes how this can be > implemented with wget: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00427.html > > If you are not familiar with gzip you can find it here: > > http://www.gzip.org/
And for those who are on Windows machines and want to use more of those Unix tools (like I do), here is where I downloaded the stuff I used to set it up. http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Using the message Pete quoted above and these tools setting this up was *easy*. Note that using gzip it will automagically convert a zipped file name.ext.gz into name.ext using "gzip -d name.ext.gz" and delete the compressed *.gz file. So all you realy need to download the compressed version of the rule file is the slightly modified wget line and *one* extra gzip line. From the UnxTools.zip file all you realy *need* is the gzip.exe file. The 10 min I invested, ok 15 as I wanted to realy test whether it was realy that simple, were well spent. Groetjes, Bonno Bloksma .... Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse? --- [E-mail scanned at tio.nl for viruses by Declude Virus] This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
