Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:34:35 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca>, Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting source tree via ftp Message-ID: <3CA5162B.1010104@cream.org> References: <20020328221900.34725.qmail@web14708.mail.yahoo.com> <20020328174451.A1309@constans.gldis.ca> <3CA3CD78.1060109@cream.org>
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Andrew Boothman wrote: > Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:19:00PM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: >> >>> I tried to get the stable source tree as a tar file by >>> going into usr.bin directory and typing get lex.tar as >>> the handbook explains. The server I ftp'd into was of >>> course ftp.freebsd.org. When I typed get lex.tar I >>> got "no such file or directory". What is going on? >> >> >> Not all ftp servers support that functionality, it would >> appear that ftp.beastie.tdk.net (aka ftp.freebsd.org) does >> not. > > This is undoubtedly a feature that was supported by the old > ftp.freebsd.org (aka ftp.cdrom.com). > > If the current ftp.freebsd.org doesn't support it, I guess we should > remove this from the handbook, as I was unable to track down an ftp > mirror that does still support this feature. I'll do a PR. In the cold light of day, I've re-read the page in question, and it does explicitly say "Some of out FTP mirrors may allow...", which I think makes the situation clear enough. Please feel free to e-mail back if you disagree ;-) Thanks anyway. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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