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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Sup of cdrom.com /pub/FreeBSD ?
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Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 00:11:54 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199605312357.QAA24093@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at May 31, 96 04:57:01 pm
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>>As mirror seems to be hopelessly broken, and sup seems to be quite a nifty
>>tool, is there any chance of being able to do a sup of cdrom.com's /pub/FreeB
SD
>>tree?
>
>    Sorry, no, the overhead is far too great for that.

How is sup worse than a massive FTP?

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich