Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:31:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: eklee@pa.dec.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? Message-ID: <19990402133126.X413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37043FCB.813304C7@pa.dec.com>; from Edward K. Lee on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:55:55PM -0800 References: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com> <19990402132028.T413@lemis.com> <37043FCB.813304C7@pa.dec.com>
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On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 19:55:55 -0800, Edward K. Lee wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> 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 >> <snip> >> 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. > > I notice, however, that there are over a dozen subdirectories and > that you would have to do this for each subdirectory to get the full > distribution. Well, they don't all contain this kind of file. > It would be convenient if there were a directory with all the > chunks, that is, bin.??, src.?? etc. so that you could just do one > big mget. Folks who only want the base distribution could do an > mget bin.*. Yes, I suppose so. Do you want to enter a PR? 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
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