From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 04:36:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA19738 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:36:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA19732 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:36:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA07229; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:35:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:35:49 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Vincent Poy cc: Doug White , Cliff Addy , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newer pine? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > I tried get port.tar.gz on cvsup2.FreeBSD.ORG when freefall wasn't > > > available a few nights ago and it didn't work but I'll try that on > > > freefall then. > > > > I think Doug meant "port" as a sort of variable, here, where you would be > > in the parent directory of the appropriate port and you'd type "get > > port.tar.gz" where port = the name of the port you want. > > > > Or possibly you understood that, in which case I apologize. > > Oh okay, but isn't there a way to go one level higher and just > grab the entire thing? Sure: ftp> pwd 257 "/.16/FreeBSD" is current directory. ftp> get ports-2.1.6.tar.gz local: ports-2.1.6.tar.gz remote: ports-2.1.6.tar.gz 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /usr/bin/tar. ^C Receive aborted. > > > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."