Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:44:51 +0000 From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting source tree via ftp Message-ID: <20020328174451.A1309@constans.gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020328221900.34725.qmail@web14708.mail.yahoo.com>; from wayneclubin@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:19:00PM -0800 References: <20020328221900.34725.qmail@web14708.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:19:00PM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > I tried to get the stable source tree as a tar file by > going into usr.bin directory and typing get lex.tar as > the handbook explains. The server I ftp'd into was of > course ftp.freebsd.org. When I typed get lex.tar I > got "no such file or directory". What is going on? > > Also is usr.bin supposed to be inside the src > directory, because the way the handbook is written, > literaly it is saying that it should be found in > Freebsd-stable directory. > > Thanks, > > Wayne Not all ftp servers support that functionality, it would appear that ftp.beastie.tdk.net (aka ftp.freebsd.org) does not. stable.freebsd.org on the other hand, does. for freebsd-doc http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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