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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:58:48 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        srj@nsd.3com.com (Scott Johnson)
Cc:        kallio@cc.jyu.fi, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, saslcl@software-ag.de, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to download to floppy disks?
Message-ID:  <199603200328.NAA04438@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199603192309.AA12401@orodruin.NSD.3Com.COM> from "Scott Johnson" at Mar 19, 96 03:09:49 pm

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Scott Johnson stands accused of saying:
> 	kallio> If you want to download everything from directory tree
> 	kallio> FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE use the command get
> 	kallio> FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE.tar
...
> If you're going to do this, get `FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE.tar.gz' and a
> copy of gnu tar or gunzip.  Much smaller file to pull across.

Actually, it's not.  Almost everything in the -RELEASE directory is already
compressed.

>         U  Ack!  Scott Johnson  3Com Corporation  srj@3com.com  408-764-6248

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