From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 1 23:56:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29497 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:56:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from macon.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (macon2.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.13.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29449 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 23:55:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from modas.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (modas.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.3]) by macon.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (8.8.4/8.8.3/AIX-4.1/WSI-1.0) with SMTP id IAA18642 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:55:55 +0100 Received: by modas.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA19494; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:55:48 +0100 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Getting STABLE via ftp doesn't work Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.1.1.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: 02 Mar 1998 08:55:47 +0100 Message-Id: Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.32/XEmacs 20.5(beta28) - "LaMancha" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA29491 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Handbook describes that ftp.freebsd.org sends out compressed tar files of directory trees. This doesn't work. How *do* I get a STABLE source tree? (I can't use CVSup for reasons described in a bug report I just filed.) lula[50] ftp ftp.freebsd.org Connected to wcarchive.cdrom.com. 220 wcarchive.cdrom.com FTP server (Version DG-2.0.11 Thu Feb 5 10:39:42 PST 1998) ready. Name (ftp.freebsd.org:sperber): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable 250 CWD command successful. ftp> get src.tar.Z local: src.tar.Z remote: src.tar.Z 200 PORT command successful. 550 src.tar.Z: No such file OR directory. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message