Re: Bittorrent

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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, John Wendel wrote:
> On Sunday 04 January 2004 03:26 pm, Krikket wrote:
>
> > So I decided to download and install bittorrent, and see how it
> > works.
> >
> > Downloaded the rpms for bittorrent, and the bittorrent-gui rpm.
> > Found out I needed another rpm, so I downloaded and installed
> > that...  Everythings in.  So far, so good.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, what's *supposed* to happen is that I go to a
> > bittorrent website, and then download the "starter" file from
> > there, and bittorrent is supposed to pick things up at this point.
> > (Using the data in the .torrent file.)  (But if I'm wrong, please
> > correct me!)
> >
> > I can download the ,torrent file, but I can't figure out how to get
> > the bittorrent system running from that point.
> >
> > Even with the gui installed, there's no obvious way of starting the
> > program.
>
> For the bittorrent challenged (like me), there's a nice program named
> "snark", that works pretty well. Find it at freshmeat.net. Just run
> "snark <torrentfile>".

Thank you very much!  It looks to be just what I need...

Krikket




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