From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 13:42:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8EF37B423; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.255.97.121]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000826204250.JFGM16423.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 21:42:50 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00400; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 21:42:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 21:42:28 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Ben Smithurst Cc: jamtat@citycom.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: download sizes Message-ID: <20000826214228.B257@parish> References: <260800239.37581@134.48.35.169> <20000826195550.A74225@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000826195550.A74225@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:55:50PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:55:50PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > jamtat@citycom.com wrote: > > > Perhaps there's a simpler way? > > Than trying to use an FTP client as a web browser? Shouldn't that be the other way round? I think part of the problem was that IE (which the original poster was using) doesn't show file sizes; it does an ``ls'' type display, not ``ls -l'' type. > Of course there > is. Use a real FTP client, then you can see the sizes in a directory > listing. > > > Any further tips? Just a ballpark figure would suffice: > > I'm not looking for anything terribly precise. > > The base bin distribution is probably 30-40MB, manpages which I strongly > recommend are probably about 10MB. They're just guesses. > > Alternatively, count the number of files ending in a two letter suffix > (.aa to .zz, though there are never enough to go to .zz). Each of those > is exactly 235KB, so it's just a simple multiplication from there. The > last one will be smaller, but that doesn't matter for your purposes. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message