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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:57:40 -0400
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From: Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz <jehren@jehrenkrantz.whyy.org>
Subject: Help with big tar ball please!
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>3.Use ftp. The source tree for FreeBSD-stable is always "exported" on:
>          ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable 
>
>          We also use `wu-ftpd' which allows compressed/tar'd grabbing of
whole >trees. e.g. you see: 
>
>                      usr.bin/lex
>
>          You can do: 
>
>                      ftp> cd usr.bin
>                      ftp> get lex.tar.Z
>
>          And it will get the whole directory for you as a compressed tar file.
>
>   3.Essentially, if you need rapid on-demand access to the source and
>communications bandwidth is not a


I have used the above address and the following  steps to get a tarball
of the entire packages-2.1.5 but it fails What am I doing wrong?

ftp> open ftp.FreeBSD.ORG
cd .............to be in
packages-2.1.5

then
ftp>Binary

ftp>get All.tar.Z

the response is   
get: Invalid filename format

Whats up Doc?      tnx ..je