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| (...) You should have had your friend with the cable modem view it, save the file, and mail it to you... (26 years ago, 23-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) A 24+ meg file? I don't think so. If you do count on one of the mail admins on either end coming down on you like a ton of bricks. (26 years ago, 23-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Mike Stanley wrote: <24M ?? admin wrath> I guess I'm confused. What's the difference between ftping a file from a site and receiving it in the mail? Same bandwidth consumption, really. Or am I missing something? I defer to your knowledge since I (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Well, generally speaking mail servers are "meant" to handle lots of little files, really tiny files on average. I don't know about most places, but a lot of the boxes I've seen have things like mailhost.x.x running on totally separate machines (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Actually mailing a file usually uses more bandwidth, because the file must be encoded -- maybe something like a 25% increase. But the main problem is server space: when you ftp a file, it goes from the remote site directly to your machine. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) It was attempted, but my server can only accept mail to a maximum of 2MB, and he didn't have the time to split it up using the span multiple floppy option on pkzip. Shame. However, he is now permanently connected to the internet, set his (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| I do have a question regarding ftp downloads..... I was advised to find an ftp site to download this file. If, in the event I experienced the same problems downloading again, I could just go to the site again, and pick up where I had been "let off." (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Well, first I wouldn't use Communicator to ftp files, although it may be capable of rudimentary ftp commands. I would download a graphical ftp client like CuteFTP or BulletProof, both of which have resume capability. The server he's running (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Yeah -- this is true in addition to my earlier comments. The U of Washington POP/IMAP server (pretty popular) at least seems to load currently-being-downloaded messages completely into RAM. So a lot of people sending big files can fill up a (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) You might also try the program GetRight: (URL) is great for downloading files - especially large ones. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Doh! Well, retract what I said about email. I should know better, too. (26 years ago, 25-Nov-98, to lugnet.starwars)
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