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To: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr.
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Subject: Re: Getting STABLE via ftp doesn't work 
In-reply-to: Your message of "02 Mar 1998 08:55:47 +0100."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 23:59:20 -0800
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>The Handbook describes that ftp.freebsd.org sends out compressed tar
>files of directory trees.  This doesn't work.  How *do* I get
>a STABLE source tree?  (I can't use CVSup for reasons described in
>a bug report I just filed.)

   We don't support on-the-fly compression. Use 'get foo.tar'.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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