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Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: commas (eg 4,863,806) in download byte-cnts
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David Combs |
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Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: commas (eg 4,863,806) in download byte-cnts |
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Fri, 17 Oct 1997 05:10:43 -0700 |
Trade sites? Maybe not.
I have a shell account on netcom.com; so I run lynx,
etc, THERE, eg via time-sharing. So I download
TO NETCOM'S COMPUTER -- not mine! -- at net speeds,
which, until people get home from work and start
downloading se-xy (damn the spam id-searchers)
pictures, is VERY fast.
Now, downloading via kermit FROM netcom TO my
computer -- that's something else again!
Time for a cup of coffee -- even when I tar
and gzip all the stuff I have collected...
[Also: to respondees about some countries don't use
commas -- true, but they all use American style
software, or once did, and they all must RECOGNIZE
what it means, eg 12,456,789 bytes.]
(Well, background, on another cde window...)
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> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:23:26 +0900 (JST)
> From: Nelson Henry Eric <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV LYNX: commas (eg 4,863,806) in download byte-cnts
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> > When downloading large files, I find it very hard to
> > tell the magnitude of the number of bytes displayed
> > in that fast-spinning "odometer" Lynx shows.
> >
> > Perhaps placing commas every three digits would make it
>
> Just couldn't resist: Better yet, let's trade sites. You can
> have mine where the "odometer" clicks over a few hundred bytes
> a _minute_! Really easy to follow, and numbers seldom get larger
> than a multiple of 10000. :); no, :( :(
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