From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 26 08:55:59 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA27296 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 08:55:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (max1-80.HiWAAY.net [208.147.145.80]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA27291 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 08:55:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.HiWAAY.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.HiWAAY.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA02083; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:32:35 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199612260132.TAA02083@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Paul T. Root" cc: rcummins@burlco.lib.nj.us (Ray Cummins), taliesin@inconnect.com, questions@freebsd.org From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Why cant you do this???I In-reply-to: Message from "Paul T. Root" of "Mon, 23 Dec 1996 07:50:56 CST." <199612231350.HAA12443@horton.iaces.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:32:34 -0600 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > FTP to ftp.cdrom.com, cd to /pub/FreeBSD, then > > > > get 2.1.6-RELEASE.tar.gz > > > > or whatever you want. Their server automatically tars all files and gzips > > the result. > > It would also be huge. Probably 600 meg or more. As someone else pointed out, its only 60M or 70M because the on-the-fly tar at ftp.cdrom.com doesn't follow the symbolic links. However, I suggest *not* requesting gzip on this particular suite of files as most everything is already gzipped, and the result might be bigger. I remember several years ago a friend downloaded Linux tar'ed and gzip'ed from sunsite.unc.edu. The tar.gz file was 130M. After gunzip (yes, gUNzip) it was only 90M. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.