From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 20: 1:51 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 658DD1568E for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:01:47 -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 NAA15804; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:31:27 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA94903; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:31:26 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990402133126.X413@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:31:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: eklee@pa.dec.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? References: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com> <19990402132028.T413@lemis.com> <37043FCB.813304C7@pa.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <37043FCB.813304C7@pa.dec.com>; from Edward K. Lee on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:55:55PM -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 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 >> >> 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