Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:50:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> Cc: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>, Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newer pine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970225114913.5297Q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970225042646.272D-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > The magic is in the tag keyword, but I find it infintely easier to just > > download ports as I need them from ftp.freebsd.org. Don't forget you can > > do 'get port.tar.gz' to get an entire directory archived. > > I tried get port.tar.gz on cvsup2.FreeBSD.ORG when freefall wasn't > available a few nights ago and it didn't work but I'll try that on > freefall then. Oops, you took me too literally. I was referring to the feature on the FTP site where you can automatically archvie any file or directory by adding '.tar.gz' after it's name when you do the get. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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