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From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
To: Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz <jehren@jehrenkrantz.whyy.org>
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Subject: Re: Help with big tar ball please!
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On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz wrote:
> 
> 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

  Try 'get All.tar.gz'. Why don't you just download the ports collection 
so that you only download what you need?

- Justin J. Ashworth
-- CS Student - Montana State University
--- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU
-- ashworth@cs.montana.edu
- http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth