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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:50:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        ldillon@cu.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBsd tar'ed & gziped
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808141449130.13156-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35D352E2.ACBCC822@localhost>

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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Larry Dillon wrote:

> Is it possible to get a tar'ed & gziped version of of FreeBSD?  I looked
> all through the FTP directories that the "How to obtain FreeBSD" link
> pointed to, to no avail.  (Even though I'm connecting through a dual
> T-1,) it seems like a waste of bandwidth and time to download the whole
> thing with mget or somesuch.
> 

Do you want to download a 150MB tarball?  

The protocol overhaead with mget is trivial.  That's also what CDROMs are
for. :)

> Please email replies to : ldillon@no_fine_Hormel_products.cu.net
> remove ------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Please use a reply-to.

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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