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
