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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting sources off of FTP site
To: blair@strech.cyber-naut.com (Blair Schmittel)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 12:32:26 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199511072110.VAA07130@strech.cyber-naut.com> from "Blair Schmittel" at Nov 7, 95 09:10:22 pm
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> 
> Hello all!
> 
> How do I get the sources onto my system from FTP?  I FTPed to ftp.freebsd.org and went under the ..../src directory.  After I FTP the sus*.* files, how do I extract them.  Or is there a Makefile which does this for me?
> 
> Thank You!
> 
> Blair
> 
you concatinate then together, and decompress the result, 
they form a tar file..
(or is that cpio?)

what are you running?
it may be easier to subscribe to 'sup' or 'CTM'
as that will give you daily updates to the sources..

(see the FAQ pages on both, (/usr/share/FAQ/Text/....)