[axel-devel] axel-devel Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6

[Philipp Hagemeister]

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Hi Lee,

thank you for your suggestions.

李蠡 wrote:
> I know nothing about RFC: Directory Layout  : ( .
An RFC is a Request For Comments. Another word would be proposal, but
that's longer and less to the point. So if you are interested in such a
dull topic as the directory structure of axel, please comment ;).

> It seems that is a pity axel can't/haven't create log in $HOME, why add this
> ability for axel ?
What do you want to be logged? A normal axel session is quite
straight-forward: Download n chunks to a local file, save state file
while downloading, remove state file when finished. That being said, in
most cases a wrapping shell script should be more appropriate, but that
depends on what you want to log. Tell us and we'll either consider it
for a future version or help you write a wrapper script.

> I translated manpage & po file for axel in Chinese, please add they next
> version, thank you.
Thank you very much! I just added both to the stable 2.x branch and plan
to add them in the new directory structure of version 3.x (developed in
trunk).

> #: axel.c:201
> msgid "Crappy filesystem/OS.. Working around. :-("
> 
> What does `Working around` means ?
> 
> It means `trying solve` or `skip` ? Please tell me in detail.
Working around means doing something in an other, inferior way because
the normal way is blocked by a bug in another program.
In this case, axel is creating a new file. "Modern" operating systems
allow files of variable size; if you write at a position beyond the
file's size, the file will automatically increased to that position+the
number of bytes written. "Modern" is a flexible term here, the POSIX
standard defining it was published in 1988. I'll remove this in the 3.x
version unless I can find a system affected by this bug.

Thaank you very much for your work for axel! In the 3.x version, some
messages will change, be removed, and added. May I contact you then for
chinese translations?

Kind regards,

Philipp
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