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Grant Sewell writes: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:28:19 +0100 > jon.davey wrote: > >> >> HI, I have BitTorrent in my menu. I clicked on the icon and was given >> a window that said 'open location for BitTorrent metafile'. Sorry to >> be dumb, but, what is this for ?, what do I need to do please? >> Cheers, Jon Davey. >> > > Bittorrent is a so-called "peer to peer" filesharing application (as > I'm sure you know). Unlike the LimeWire-esque filesharers, you need to > download a .torrent file and give that to your torrent downloader. > > For example, if you wanted to download via BitTorrent the Debian DVD > ISO images, you'd need to first download the .torrent files here: > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/bt-dvd/ > and then point your BitTorrent downloader application at your > downloaded files. > > It is a "metafile" because it's a file about a file. It describes a > place to "announce" to and equally, where others are announcing - so > your BitTorrent application can see their announcements and commence > downloading from them. It also describes how many "pieces" the file > has been broken into. > > Hope this helps. > > Grant. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html ...Hi, thanks for teh reply. Although I don't really understand the idea of this I have managed to download an mp3, which is what's important I supose. THanks for trying to explain anyway! Cheers, Jon. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html