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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Doug White: Re: Port Collection Error 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:48:25 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:07:06 -0700
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>On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Dale Stanifer wrote:
>
>> 	I am unable to download the Port Collection. The error that my Netscape
>> gave me is as follow;
>> 
>> 	Netscape is unable to find the file or diectory named:
>> 	/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports.tar.gz
>> 	Check the name and try again.
>> 
>> 	This is after I click the link on the /ports/index.html page.
>> 	Is this file still being offer or must I click on each one?
>
>Actually, the FTP server should generate this automatically.  However, it
>looks like archiving has been temporarily disabled on ftp.freebsd.org for
>some reason.  The best I can say for the moment, then, is ``try again
>later.''
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major

   Jordan forwarded the above. We no longer support on-the-fly compression
due to load considerations. On-the-fly tar'ing is still supported, however.
The WWW page needs to be changed to drop the .gz.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project