Re: [e-smith-devinfo] 4.1beta2 is out!!

[Gordon Rowell]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:28:41PM -0500, Charlie Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Damien Curtain wrote:
> [...]
> > little bit quicker than downloading it via ftp
> 
> Nearly six times faster! :-)

Actually it will be even better than that as rsync is also
dramatically more efficient at stuffing packets and minimises the
ammount of return chatter required. But then, being less efficient
than FTP is not all that easy :-(

Gordon
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