From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 13:27:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07438 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:27:10 -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 NAA07426 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:27:07 -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 NAA29027; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:26:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: William Bracken cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd download In-Reply-To: <001b01bdc6cc$c2a89ca0$acfacbcf@raffie> 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 Thu, 13 Aug 1998, William Bracken wrote: > I am trying to get the freebsd source files for install. But I always > end up in an ftp directory with several files that make no sense to > me. Is there are zip or tar for freebsd? No, it would be ~150 megabytes. :) The small files are actually tar.gz archives split into 240k chunks. To reconstitute the part you want, download all of the [name].* files, then use cat [name].* | tar xzf - to extract them. 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