From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 19:58:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.digital.com (mail1.digital.com [204.123.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5890B1568E for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:58:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eklee@pa.dec.com) Received: from src-mail.pa.dec.com (src-mail.pa.dec.com [16.4.16.35]) by mail1.digital.com (8.9.2/8.9.2/WV2.0g) with ESMTP id TAA28564; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:58:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by src-mail.pa.dec.com; id TAA12830; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:58:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <37043FCB.813304C7@pa.dec.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 19:55:55 -0800 From: "Edward K. Lee" Reply-To: eklee@pa.dec.com Organization: Systems Research Center, Compaq Computer Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? References: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com> <19990402132028.T413@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I notice, however, that there are over a dozen subdirectories and that you would have to do this for each subdirectory to get the full distribution. It would be convenient if there were a directory with all the chunks, that is, bin.??, src.?? etc. so that you could just do one big mget. Folks who only want the base distribution could do an mget bin.*. Ed Greg Lehey wrote: > > In fact, what you get are chunks of compressed tar files. For > example, the base distribution contains the following files: > > bin.aa bin.ab bin.ac bin.ad bin.ae bin.af bin.ag bin.ah bin.ai bin.aj > bin.ak bin.al bin.am bin.an bin.ao bin.ap bin.aq bin.ar bin.as bin.at > bin.au bin.av bin.aw bin.ax bin.ay bin.az bin.ba bin.bb bin.bc bin.bd > bin.be bin.bf bin.bg bin.bh bin.bi bin.bj bin.bk bin.bl bin.bm bin.bn > bin.bo bin.bp bin.bq bin.br bin.bs bin.bt bin.bu bin.bv bin.bw bin.bx > bin.by bin.bz bin.ca bin.cb bin.cc bin.cd bin.ce bin.cf bin.cg bin.ch > bin.ci bin.cj bin.ck bin.cl bin.cm bin.cn bin.co bin.cp bin.cq bin.cr > bin.cs bin.ct bin.cu bin.cv bin.cw bin.cx bin.cy bin.cz bin.da bin.db > bin.dc bin.dd bin.de bin.df bin.dg bin.dh bin.di bin.dj bin.dk bin.dl > bin.dm bin.dn bin.do bin.dp bin.dq bin.dr bin.ds bin.dt bin.du bin.dv > bin.dw bin.dx > > They're each (except for the last one) 240 kB long for easy download. > Join them together and you have one big compressed tar file. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message