On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:16:49PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:32:06PM -0500, Andy Ball wrote:
> 
> > At the office I have access to the Internet via DSL.  At home I only
> > have an analog phone line and a dial-up service that wouldn't maintain
> > a connection long enough for CVS to be an option.  I was able to down-
> > load pkgsrc at the office and carry it home on a Zip disk.  The
> > dial-up connection stays up long enough to fetch the packages I want.
> 
> maybe rsync would work well over a dial-up line?
> 
> and ssh-CVS is a lot faster than pserver...  (I haven't a clue as to
> why.  you would think it would be the other way around.)

cvs update of current usually finishes in an hour or so over 56k.
Since you can update each subdirectory if necessary it isn't impossible.
Also it will continue if the link dies - so you can even get the
sources that way (provided you have all day).

	David

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