Flight 6 torrent (Problem)

[Tony Arnold]

Sridhar,

Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 02:30:50PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
>    > 
>    > Sridhar M.A. wrote:
>    > > Hello all,
>    > > 
>    > > Just saw that dapper flight 6 is available for download (thanks to this
>    > > list). But when I click on the dapper-install-i386.iso.torrent file, the
>    > > browser prompts for saving the iso file. I saw the same behaviour with
>    > > wget. Has anyone noticed this problem? Or am I doing something wrong?
>    > 
>    > That's what I would expect to happen. Download and save the .iso file
>    > somewhere on your system which you can then burn to a CD.
>    > 
>    > I'm not sure what you were expecting?
>    > 
> I was and am under the impression that one downloads a torrent file and
> uses one of the numerous clients to download the real iso/whatever.
> Well, that is how I have downloaded many of the things. But, this is the
> first time I am seeing this behaviour.

OK. My browser (epiphany) gives me the option of saving the .torrent
file or opening it with BitTorrent. Choosing save and the torrent file
gets saved; choosing open causes a bittorrent app to open and start the
down load. It probably depends on how your brwoser is configured to
handle .torrent files.

Regards,
Tony.
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