[plug] Splitting apt downloads

[Brad Campbell]

deepwater lagoon wrote:
> Is there a way to split up the files that apt downloads, so that i can 
> update my computer on dial-up.  50 meg chunks would seem to be appropriate.
> Cheers

Not sure, but it does resume where it left off if you abort it. so you could download 50M and ctrl-c 
the apt process.. then re-start it later with the same command line and it will just pick up where 
it left off..

Not sure that helps you, but anyway

Brad
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