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Skriven 2005-03-21 08:41:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GERALD MILLER
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Hello Gerald - 

GM> I think I understand the concept of "torrent" -- you begin
GM> a download and if someone else requires some parts of the
GM> file that you've already downloaded, then it is uploaded to
GM> them. VERY nice touch, lessen the strain on the server from
GM> having to deal with so many file requests. 

There is no 'server' when using a torrent it's not unlike P2P
shares. There is one machine that is the trakker that initiates
the process (someone has to have the entire file to start the
process) but after that it's all just sharing of pieces of the
file. The author of BitTorrent claims it can manage 1000 times
more downloads than server software could manage within the
same timeframe. 

GM> What I don't understand is how I change the "torrent" file
GM> to an "ISO" file that Nero can burn. 

There is no "torrent" that is just the protocol being used for
the transfers rather than HTTP or FTP etc. The file is whatever
it is. If you are transferring an MOV, MP3, or ISO file that is
what the file is.  All torrents do not involve ISO files.  Many
are MP3s while some are AVIs.

An "ISO" file is comparable to a photograph of the file layout
on whatever storage media it was on. ISOs can be image copies
of a floppy disk, zipdisk, CD rom, DVD, or an entire partition
of a hard drive. The ISO can contain many files but the ISO
itself is one continuous file that must be returned to media as
an ISO that overlays the entire surface of that media (or
single partition on a hard drive). Another way of expressing
this is that the ISO is a _binary_copy_ of what is stored on
the media copied without regard to media formats of the
particular OS that created the information originally. 

GM> Do I rename the file after the download? 

As with all other files on your hard drive once it is completed
you can call it "Mary" if you want to. 

GM> Is the file automatically renamed after the download has
GM> completed? 

Using _my_ torrent transfer software the file temporarilly has
some gibberish appended to the start that is removed/replaced
by the actual filename upon completion. 

GM> Or is there something that I'm missing about the whole
GM> procedure? 

Only that the "torrent" refers to the URL of the trakker _and_
the filename of the file being transferred. 

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