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by **Jim Reise** » Wed, 02 Mar 1994 01:57:06

I wonder who thought it would be a good idea to compress all the .DSK
files for the 2.1 CSD into a single .ZIP file on ftp.cdrom.com? I had
to download 3 times. The first two times, I got about 10M of the 25M
archive before the FTP transfer aborted. So in effect, I downloaded
the files almost twice. It sure would have been nice if I could have
restarted from where the transfer left off.

Then when I finally got a good download, I noticed that the .ZIP file
was in the older PKZIP 1.x format, not 2.X.

Boy, compressing those files sure saved *me* a lot of time! :-(

- Jim

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by **Julian Fro** » Wed, 02 Mar 1994 04:30:45

> I wonder who thought it would be a good idea to compress all the .DSK
> files for the 2.1 CSD into a single .ZIP file on ftp.cdrom.com? I had
> to download 3 times. The first two times, I got about 10M of the 25M
> archive before the FTP transfer aborted. So in effect, I downloaded
> the files almost twice. It sure would have been nice if I could have
> restarted from where the transfer left off.

> Then when I finally got a good download, I noticed that the .ZIP file
> was in the older PKZIP 1.x format, not 2.X.

> Boy, compressing those files sure saved *me* a lot of time! :-(

The individual .DSK files are available on ftp-os2.cdrom.com too! They
are in the 21servpak directy, as opposed to the patches directory
where the humungous ZIP file is!

Julian
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by **March Ha** » Fri, 04 Mar 1994 11:35:43

> The individual .DSK files are available on ftp-os2.cdrom.com too! They
> are in the 21servpak directy, as opposed to the patches directory
> where the humungous ZIP file is!

Sorry, but not last weekend. I spent the entire weekend trying various
schemes to ftp that big-a'ed file because the only one with the
individual 5.25" DSK's was watson. I finally had to ftp a Unix ftp "batch"
program, compile it, and run it to get the missing disks, since I don't
have a 24 Meg Internet account and probably never will (not without
my own SLIP, at any rate).

John

by **Julian Fro** » Fri, 04 Mar 1994 17:35:00

> > The individual .DSK files are available on ftp-os2.cdrom.com too! They
> > are in the 21servpak directy, as opposed to the patches directory
> > where the humungous ZIP file is!

> Sorry, but not last weekend.

Well, I downloaded the first few DSK files on Saturday, and the last
few on Sunday (when I could get back on to cdrom!!)! The middle bunch
I got from another site. Incidentally, I downloaded the MMPM disks
again (20 & 21) from ftp.cdrom on Sunday evening because I was having
problems with them. So, they were all there last weekend!

Julian
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Very Computer

Bad move: all .DSK files for 2.1 CSD in a single .ZIP file

Bad move: all .DSK files for 2.1 CSD in a single .ZIP file

Bad move: all .DSK files for 2.1 CSD in a single .ZIP file

Bad move: all .DSK files for 2.1 CSD in a single .ZIP file

Bad move: all .DSK files for 2.1 CSD in a single .ZIP file