Topic Title: Dialup tip for fetching large packages

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Howdy! Just got my dose of the GWN and the gentoo-user thread about dialup tips caught my eye. Im not subscribed to the list currently and didnt want to join just to pass this very small and ugly tip on, but posting heres much easier, so...Im a dialup user and sometimes really feel this, for example the recent KDE 3.1.3 update. Ive only got one phone line in the apartment, and two others living here, so I cant tie the line up anytime I please. I came up with the following to let me grab packages overnight and not still be connected uselessly in the morning, eating up my monthly hour allotment.Im using wvdial to control my modem. I get connected, then

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