From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 15 05:35:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA23128 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 05:35:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA23111 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 05:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.177]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:36:04 +0200 Received: (from malte.lance@gmx.net) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04958; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:08:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:08:18 +0200 (CEST) To: ldillon@no_fine_Hormel_products.cu.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBsd tar'ed & gziped In-Reply-To: <35D352E2.ACBCC822@localhost> References: <35D352E2.ACBCC822@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13781.27197.201236.961254@neuron.webmore.de> Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Larry Dillon writes: > Is it possible to get a tar'ed & gziped version of of FreeBSD? I looked > all through the FTP directories that the "How to obtain FreeBSD" link > pointed to, to no avail. (Even though I'm connecting through a dual > T-1,) it seems like a waste of bandwidth and time to download the whole > thing with mget or somesuch. use the "get" command in ftp on the directory containing your files and append ".tar" or ".tar.gz" or ".tgz" or ".gz" Most ftp-server support on-the-fly-compression/tar-ing. > > Please email replies to : ldillon@no_fine_Hormel_products.cu.net > remove ------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Brb ... PLEASE STOP SENDING EMAIL AS COMMING FROM ROOT@127.0.0.1 !!! More: use a "reply-to"-header !!! I do so ... why don't you ??? Since you are an Webmaster i assume you are somewhat familiar with basic network-knowledge and NETIQUETTE. Malte. > > -- > Larry Dillon -- Assistant Systems Manager -- Computers Unlimited > (c) 1998 Assistant Webmaster -- Internet Montana > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message