From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 08:28:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22522 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from email.csun.edu (csun1.csun.edu [130.166.1.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22439 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from albert.kinderman@email.csun.edu) Received: from s097n066.csun.edu by csun1.csun.edu with SMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA040262063; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:27:43 -0700 Message-Id: <35911AEA.DF320472@email.csun.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 08:27:39 -0700 From: Albert Kinderman Organization: California State University, Northridge X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Katsnelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP tar References: <35910335.CC6AD564@graphnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roman Katsnelson wrote: > I am trying to install a port (pine) via FTP. In the Handbook, it says > that if, once logged on and in the proper directory I give > > ftp> get pine.tar > > then it will tar up that directory and get it. However, all that happens > (which I, being the cynic, expected anyway) is > > pine.tar is not a file or a directory I just did it. Everything was fine. However, I did make the mistake of trying to get pine from the ports directory and got the pine.tar is not ... message [ I should have been in ports/mail]. After changing to ports/mail, I typed get pin.tar and got the pin.tar is not ... message. Be sure you are in the correct directory and don't make any spelling mistakes. Al -- Albert Kinderman California State University, Northridge albert.kinderman@csun.edu Department of Management Science To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message