how to create a .torrent file

[drew einhorn]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/11/28 user1 <bqz69 at telia.com>:
> > If I have a file called yyyyyy.iso sitting in a folder on a webhotel,
> > let's call the url address:
> >
> > http://www.xxxxxxxx.org/tarballs/yyyyyy.iso
> >
> > How do I create a .bittorrent file for yyyyyy.iso?
> >
> > Please explain in details, as the documentation I have read so far has
> > been a bit to complicated for me to understand (I am 70+ yrs old)
> >
> > Do I need to give a port number somewhere, which I have read about.
> >
> > Whatever I have tried has given errors and not worked.
> >
>
> Most bittorrent clients have built in facilities for creating .torrent
> files from local files. There are command-line bittorent clients that
> can do that on your server, a ten-second Google search led me to
> several.
>
>
You mean like this

     http://lmgtfy.com/?q=create+.torrent


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