From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 18:04:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA21711 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:04:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from vespucci.iquest.com (vespucci.iquest.com [199.170.120.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA21704 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 18:04:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [204.177.193.231] (n4hhe.ampr.org [204.177.193.231]) by vespucci.iquest.com (8.6.9/8.6.9 Secure) with SMTP id UAA07257 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 20:04:27 -0600 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 20:04:27 -0600 To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org From: dkelly@iquest.com (David Kelly) Subject: Re: HTML & ATAPI part 3 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Anthony Hill 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 ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison