From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 19:50:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E7B414CE4 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:50:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA15703; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:20:28 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA94861; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:20:28 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990402132028.T413@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:20:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: eklee@pa.dec.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? References: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com>; from Edward K. Lee on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:56:20PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 18:56:20 -0800, Edward K. Lee wrote: > This may be a silly question, but why are there no tar files for the > FreeBSD distributions? Are we really supposed to ftp each > individual file/directory? Why, are there no tar files for the FreeBSD distributions? In fact, what you get are chunks of compressed tar files. For example, the base distribution contains the following files: bin.aa bin.ab bin.ac bin.ad bin.ae bin.af bin.ag bin.ah bin.ai bin.aj bin.ak bin.al bin.am bin.an bin.ao bin.ap bin.aq bin.ar bin.as bin.at bin.au bin.av bin.aw bin.ax bin.ay bin.az bin.ba bin.bb bin.bc bin.bd bin.be bin.bf bin.bg bin.bh bin.bi bin.bj bin.bk bin.bl bin.bm bin.bn bin.bo bin.bp bin.bq bin.br bin.bs bin.bt bin.bu bin.bv bin.bw bin.bx bin.by bin.bz bin.ca bin.cb bin.cc bin.cd bin.ce bin.cf bin.cg bin.ch bin.ci bin.cj bin.ck bin.cl bin.cm bin.cn bin.co bin.cp bin.cq bin.cr bin.cs bin.ct bin.cu bin.cv bin.cw bin.cx bin.cy bin.cz bin.da bin.db bin.dc bin.dd bin.de bin.df bin.dg bin.dh bin.di bin.dj bin.dk bin.dl bin.dm bin.dn bin.do bin.dp bin.dq bin.dr bin.ds bin.dt bin.du bin.dv bin.dw bin.dx They're each (except for the last one) 240 kB long for easy download. Join them together and you have one big compressed tar file. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message