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Date: Thu,  5 Apr 2007 05:29:32 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 2 newbe questions of a general nature
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> been there, done that!  you can update with /usr/genda/bin/rc/pull.
> this will scan a log and update only the files changed.  it was very
> speedy for me over a 56k modem.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Staying_up_to_date/

> over the modem i never could get the full image to download before
> it was updated, thus forcing me to start over.

I have heard various reports of people with broken ISO images and this
might be an explanation.

Would be nice if the BL overlords could avoid this, maybe by moving
the previous day ISO before the new one takes its place, similar to
how replica moves foo to _foo.

uriel