Re: intent of package seti@home

[jtravs@debian.org]

On  3 May, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
So
> I killed the program, brought up pppd, and then restarted the program. 
> It connected to the server and then proceded to download another work
> unit WITHOUT first uploadeding the completed unit (not enough time
> elapased for that, the modem lights did not wink write long enough, and
> a look at the directories showed no save of the old work units).  I
> have filed a bug report with seti@home.
> 

I have also been running this software for a while. This is not a bug,
the software does not return the whole unit, just a results file of
1-2k. This is because the results of the analysis are far smaller than
the raw data its self.

Regards, travs.