Look on the bright side. You could be still waiting for the tape! :)

On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Peter Plourd wrote:

> and I thought I was the only one that found 26 hours to be bit much!!!
>
> At 11:19 AM 9/24/96 -0400, Richard Sims wrote:
> >In approaching downloading of the latest ADSM client code for
> >AIX 3.2 I took a look at what is on the IBM site, which is:
> >
> >-rw-r--r--   1 221      204        63838 Sep 17 00:40 
> >aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.README
> >-rw-r--r--   1 221      204         1318 Sep 17 00:39 
> >aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.README.ftp
> >-rw-r--r--   1 221      204      49100800 Sep 18 01:42 
> >aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.smit
> >
> >I then had a look at the ftp.cac.psu.edu mirror site, which has:
> >
> >-r--r--r--   1 100      1027          405 Jun 17 21:22 .message
> >-r--r--r--   1 100      1027         1318 Aug 30 19:34 
> >aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.README.ftp
> >-r--r--r--   1 100      1027     36659200 Aug 30 12:29 
> >aix32.v2r1m5.IP20847.smit
> >
> >Customers depending upon mirror sites seem to be missing something...
> >over 12 MB.  This is why I don't trust mirror sites, and have been
> >looking to IBM to improve the access to their authoritative site so
> >that it doesn't take 26 hours to download a fix file like this.
> >
> >     Richard Sims, Boston University OIT
> >
> >
>