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From: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca>
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Subject: Automatic tarballs from ftp.freebsd.org?
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The handbook says that the FreeBSD server will automatically tar and gzip
a directory, but I can only get it to work without the gzip step:

ie:
cd pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/src
get sys.tar      ------ works OK, sends me a tar file for sys/
get sys.tar.gz   ------ does not work

Have I missed something, or is the handbook wrong?