On Sat, 21 May 2005 20:38:13 -0400, Larry W4CSC wrote:
"Red Cloudİ" wrote in
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How long does it take to download and compile such a thing?
I got cable with 3Mbps of bandwidth. 1 GB divided by about 250 KB/second
average = a little over an hour if you're not making things busy doing
other things. That'll download all the .RAR files to the hard drive.
Running WinRAR on it to compile it into the movie is about another 10-12
minutes....
Forte Agent still the best program to use?
Agent sucks. I use Xnews (http://xnews.newsguy.com/). Xnews threads all
the pieces of each part into a single line for each .RAR or .PAR file and
lets you know if anything is missing, like a single message in a part. You
can simply mark the Q field in the message list with click-drag-down for
all the parts you want, even as it is already downloading, then go to work
or bed and it will download, decode, thread and store the .RAR parts to
whatever directory you told it to. You don't need to watch....
MP3 files download, decode and store directly to the original MP3 files and
don't need to be split up into so many RAR or numbered parts....
Works great....no p2p problems...but no shopping for a specific file,
either....you take whatever someone has posted.
I can't see anything in your list that Agent doesn't do.
--
John H
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes (A true binary thinker!)