Bittorrent

[djh]

Krikket wrote:

>So I decided to download and install bittorrent, and see how it works.
>...
>As far as I can tell, what's *supposed* to happen is that I go to a
>bittorrent website, and then download the "starter" file from there, and
>bittorrent is supposed to pick things up at this point.  (Using the data
>in the .torrent file.)  (But if I'm wrong, please correct me!)
>
Yep.

>I can download the ,torrent file, but I can't figure out how to get the
>bittorrent system running from that point.
>
btdownloadgui.py --responsefile your.torrent

There are other command-line arguments you might find useful, like 
max_upload_rate. 
(run it with no arguments for a list)

There's also the btdownloadheadless.py and btdownloadcurses.py 
frontends, if you
don't like the wxPython GUI.

David.