Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 20:04:27 -0600 From: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTML & ATAPI part 3 Message-ID: <v02130500ad0e4178eaba@[204.177.193.231]>
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Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> replied
>> So I need a work around installing packages by way of DOS. Needed is a
>> utility that takes a package subtree copied over from DOS and applies the
>> tables, restoring the long file names. Does such a thing exist? Otherwise,
>> I'll write one.
>
>I think you are going about this the hard way. The wcarchive ftp site
>supports tarring of subdirectories on the fly. (or at least it used to)
>You just append something like .tar.Z to the end of the subdir name when you
>do a get, and you should get the whole tree.
.tar.Z, .tar.gz, and probably .tgz works as expected. But if you are
downloading already-compressed data an additional compress/gzip/whatever is
a waste of the host CPU's cycles. Plus the result is likely to be larger
than the original.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@iquest.com
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