From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 22:02:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA18665 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA18653 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA10664; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:02:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Roman Katsnelson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP tar In-Reply-To: <35910335.CC6AD564@graphnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, 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 Are you using ftp.freebsd.org,and are you doing it in a directory that contains a folder called pine? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message