On Monday, in article <t39Nc.169$uX4.157@trndny06>
     brozewicz.rf@verizon.net "bob brozewicz" wrote:

it takes an average 8/9 hours.

Blimey!  It only take around 4 hours on an Athlon 1900+, on Linux.  
A 2.8 GHz Celeron should be leaving that in its dust.
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