Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:02:56 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Stripling <philip@civex.com> To: BMICK@bigpond.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Downloads Message-ID: <199901281902.LAA13041@shell.tsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <000701be4aca$996c1880$c97e868b@x2k6n0> (BMICK@bigpond.com) References: <000701be4aca$996c1880$c97e868b@x2k6n0>
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Michael wrote: > BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff > DIVFONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2Hi, I'm downloading files from your = > ftp sites=20 > and I'd like to ask what are the files 1s-1R and 1s-1R.gz at A=20 > href=3D"ftp://ftp.freebsd.org"ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/A , are they = > important=20 > should I download them. If they are semi-important or useful are there = > any other=20 > files that are as useful or important that you weren't directed to = > download on=20 > webpage A=20 > href=3D"http://www.lemis.com/handbook/what-to-download.html"http://www.l= > emis.com/handbook/what-to-download.html./A/FONT/DIV > DIVnbsp/DIV > DIVFONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2nbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp Thank = > you/FONT/DIV > DIVFONT color=3D#000000=20 > size=3D2nbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbs= > pnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp=20 > FONT color=3D#000000From Michael B./FONT/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML I think it is ls-lR and ls-lR.gz, not 1s, etc. Those files are listings of the directories and their contents, saved as text files, one plain text and one gzipped. If I understand correctly, they are called ls-lR because the files are the result (if not directly, then they are what would be the result) of typing at the Un*x command line ls -lR which give you a recursive listing of the current directory and the contents of each of the subdirectories located within the current directory. So what you have is the contents of ftp.freebsd.org, which you may find very helpful in offline reading for locating files you want. Your question is couched as "your ftp sites." You have posted the question to an email list which the people at FreeBSD.Org may or may not be reading, and it is for discussion of FreeBSD by newbies. So while you seem to be asking the question of FreeBSD.Org, it may be that you get answers from newbies like me instead of an authoritative answer. By the way, can you set Outlook Express to post in plain text. It is difficult to find your text in your question with all that markup. Hope this helps, Phil philip@civex.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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