🚀 go-pugleaf

meissner@osf.ORG (Michael Meissner) writes:
>| 
>| This is probabaly a stupid question, but where can I get hold of 'gcc' in
>| small enough chunks to FTP. The *.gz file on prep.ai.mit.edu is 
>| about 7Mb, which is too big for me to FTP (it
>| also exceeds my disk quota).
>| 
>| Can anyone please tell me a site which has an up-to-date
>| version of 'gcc' broken down into samller chuncksks
>| 
>| Please reply by e-mail if possible.
>
>This comes up every so often, so I am copying gcc-help.  The ftp
>mirror site ftp.uu.net automatically splits large tar files into
>smaller pieces.  For the recently released 2.6.2 release, here are the
>files in the split directory:

>  /@ftp.uu.net:/systems/gnu/gcc-2.6.2.tar.gz-split:
>  total 7373
>  drwxrwxr-x   2 34       archive       512 Nov 13 00:18 .
>  drwxrwsr-x  34 34       archive     11264 Nov 13 00:18 ..
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 34       archive       684 Nov 13 00:18 README
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 34       archive    256000 Nov 12 09:06 part01
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 34       archive    256000 Nov 12 09:06 part02
>  -rw-rw-r--   1 34       archive    256000 Nov 12 09:06 part03
...

	That is one way, the other way is to see if your favourite FTP
	server has some way to support "on flight" splitting. Here is
	an example how  ftp.funet.fi  does it when there exists a file
	with name   BIGFILE  ("gcc-2.6.2.tar.gz" in above example.)

	...
	ftp> binary
	ftp> quote site partsize 256000
	ftp> get BIGFILE.1			(A 1010 000 byte file)
	( gets BIGFILE.1 - 256 000 bytes )
	ftp> get BIGFILE.2
	...
	ftp> get BIGFILE.5
	( gets BIGFILE.5 -  10 000 bytes )


	I wish something similar would appear to the other servers as well.

>| Thanks in advance.
>| 
>| Tim Porter,
>| Forestry Commission,
>| ALice Holt Lodge.
>| 
>| I-Net: yfcw29@castle.ed.ac.uk
>
>-- 
>Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
>Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142
>Old hackers never die, their bugs just increase.

	/Matti Aarnio	<mea@utu.fi> <mea@ftp.funet.fi>