On Fri, 21 May 1999, Christopher Brown wrote:

> However, to minimize time spent
> waiting for the modem, there is a command ("make prefetch" I believe)
> that will make a list of files to download, that you can then download
> any way you want (one at a time, from another machine, etc.). Then you
> put them in the appropriate place and the build will proceed normally.

I find it convenient to do a "make fetch-list | /bin/sh -s" before
doing the "make install", so it downloads everything at once and gets
done tying up the phone line. Some of the builds might take all day,
but the download never does.