Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:57:40 -0400 From: Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz <jehren@jehrenkrantz.whyy.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help with big tar ball please! Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19960814145740.42f7fd9e@199.234.236.254>
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>3.Use ftp. The source tree for FreeBSD-stable is always "exported" on: > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable > > We also use `wu-ftpd' which allows compressed/tar'd grabbing of whole >trees. e.g. you see: > > usr.bin/lex > > You can do: > > ftp> cd usr.bin > ftp> get lex.tar.Z > > And it will get the whole directory for you as a compressed tar file. > > 3.Essentially, if you need rapid on-demand access to the source and >communications bandwidth is not a I have used the above address and the following steps to get a tarball of the entire packages-2.1.5 but it fails What am I doing wrong? ftp> open ftp.FreeBSD.ORG cd .............to be in packages-2.1.5 then ftp>Binary ftp>get All.tar.Z the response is get: Invalid filename format Whats up Doc? tnx ..je
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