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To: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
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Subject: Re: FTP tar 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:46:29 EDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:48:12 -0700
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>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

   Sounds like you are in the wrong directory. You need to be in the parent of
the 'pine' directory.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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