From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 22:00:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA05500 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 22:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from venus.os.com ([199.232.47.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA05494 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 22:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from craigs@localhost) by venus.os.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA06578; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 01:02:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 01:02:29 -0500 (EST) From: Craig Shrimpton To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports (how) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Doug White wrote: > 'get inn.tar.gz' and it will zip up and download the whole directory. > I guess this was my problem. My ftp will not do a gzip of a whole directory for some reason. I'm using the stock 2.1 ftp. I did it by hand and it worked fine. I must say, as a former Linux user, FreeBSD has a superior software management and distribution system. What took me weeks to get right on Linux only took a couple of hours on FreeBSD! Keep up the good work and thanks to all that responded. Craig