From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 19:19:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24984 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 19:19:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA24926 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 19:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA04438; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:58:49 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603200328.NAA04438@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: How to download to floppy disks? To: srj@nsd.3com.com (Scott Johnson) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:58:48 +1030 (CST) Cc: kallio@cc.jyu.fi, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, saslcl@software-ag.de, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603192309.AA12401@orodruin.NSD.3Com.COM> from "Scott Johnson" at Mar 19, 96 03:09:49 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[