[ale] NewbieQ: How do I start using BitTorrent?

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

Baron -

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, da Black Baron wrote:

> I prefer: /usr/bin/btdownloadheadless
> "http://www.slackware.com/torrents/slackware-9.1-install-d1.torrent"; 

Thanks - that appears to be working, using the *.torrent I had downloaded 
last night. It also looks like a long haul!

 "saving:         slackware-9.1-iso (625.2 MB)
  percent done:   1.0
  time left:      3 hour 47 min 20 sec
  download to:    slackware-9.1-iso
  download rate:  47 kB/s
  upload rate:    1 kB/s"

Next time I launch it backgrounded with a simple redirection script.

Regards,

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu