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To: esl <esl@news1.cio.med.va.gov>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Download
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esl writes:
 > Is there a way to download all of
 > ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE in to a compressed tar archive
 > without downloading each piece one-by-one? What is the best way to
 > download the entire distribution? I know there are CD-ROMs but they
 > seemed to be outdated.

AFAIK ftp.freebsd.org is capable of on-the-fly-compression.
When in /pub/FreeBSD type one of the following commands:
get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar.gz
get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tgz
get 2.2.7-RELEASE.gz
get 2.2.7-RELEASE.tar

Malte.

 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > E. Lluisma
 > 
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