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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il>
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On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, J. W. Ballantine wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Dumb question 724:  Is there some specific reason why the
> ftp service on releng22.freebsd.org doesn't allow one to:
> 
> get 2.2-970814-RELENG.tar
> 
> ?? But rather require one to build the dir tree by hand and
> the do a prompt and mget *.
> 

Dunno, but wget (in the ports tree) is your friend. It will let you grab a
whole hierarchy with a single command. As a matter of fact, I'm using it
right now to fetch 2.2-970814-RELENG...

> 
> Just curious..
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
Nadav