From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Mar 29 17:33:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk (pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A06F37B405 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:33:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1521 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2002 01:33:24 -0000 Received: from spatula.home (HELO cream.org) (192.168.0.4) by myriad.home with SMTP; 30 Mar 2002 01:33:24 -0000 Message-ID: <3CA5162B.1010104@cream.org> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 01:34:35 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Boothman Cc: Jeremy Faulkner , Wayne Lubin , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting source tree via ftp References: <20020328221900.34725.qmail@web14708.mail.yahoo.com> <20020328174451.A1309@constans.gldis.ca> <3CA3CD78.1060109@cream.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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