From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 16:57:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13444 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:57:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13439 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA02962; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:58:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:58:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Hans N Gruber cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question-2.15,2.16: install In-Reply-To: <19961126.042752.4671.0.hounddog@juno.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Hans N Gruber wrote: > I'm assuming 2.16 just got released recently. I started the > painstaking process of downloading about the individual bin and man files > from the ftp site, and for some reason endid up with 2.15. I really don't > want to go through this again. Has anybody zipped up the directories into > large zip files? Sure, bin would be about 16 megs, but this would be a > lot easier to download than all the individual files. To be honest, it's better with the separate files. If the download dies, then you don't have to fetch the whole thing over again. You can get the ftp server to bundle stuff together by putting an extension on it: get bin.tar perhaps get bin.zip will work too. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major