Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 19:32:34 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: rcummins@burlco.lib.nj.us (Ray Cummins), taliesin@inconnect.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why cant you do this???I Message-ID: <199612260132.TAA02083@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> of "Mon, 23 Dec 1996 07:50:56 CST." <199612231350.HAA12443@horton.iaces.com>
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> > > > FTP to ftp.cdrom.com, cd to /pub/FreeBSD, then > > > > get 2.1.6-RELEASE.tar.gz > > > > or whatever you want. Their server automatically tars all files and gzips > > the result. > > It would also be huge. Probably 600 meg or more. As someone else pointed out, its only 60M or 70M because the on-the-fly tar at ftp.cdrom.com doesn't follow the symbolic links. However, I suggest *not* requesting gzip on this particular suite of files as most everything is already gzipped, and the result might be bigger. I remember several years ago a friend downloaded Linux tar'ed and gzip'ed from sunsite.unc.edu. The tar.gz file was 130M. After gunzip (yes, gUNzip) it was only 90M. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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