From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 2 6:30:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C6E14C7F for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 06:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA16297; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:28:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:28:34 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Greg Lehey Cc: eklee@pa.dec.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? In-Reply-To: <19990402133126.X413@lemis.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 Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: # > 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? Some servers support grabbing the entire contents of a directory by using 'get .tar'. So if you wanted to get a copy of the 3.1 release bits you could do this. $ ftp -a ftp.freebsd.org ... ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386 250 CWD command successful ftp> get 3.1-RELEASE.tar ... NOTE: this feature is only supported by some ftpd's, so it may not work on every FreeBSD mirror site. # 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