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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

> > The magic is in the tag keyword, but I find it infintely easier to just
> > download ports as I need them from ftp.freebsd.org.   Don't forget you can
> > do 'get port.tar.gz' to get an entire directory archived.
> 
> 	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.

Oops, you took me too literally.  I was referring to the feature on the
FTP site where you can automatically archvie any file or directory by
adding '.tar.gz' after it's name when you do the get.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major