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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:42:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Getting source tree via ftp
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So then without the ability to get the entire source
tree as a tar file with the "get lex.tar" command,
what is the best way to get the source tree via ftp? I
guess what I am asking is if ftp has a single commmand
that will get all files that I need and put them into
the proper directories, or, do I have to literaly get
each file one by one, or, is there something in
between that ftp offers. I have looked at the ftp man
page and did not see any commands that would dig into
sub directories or do other useful stuff that would be
helpful. Thanks for the help.


Wayne



--- Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> wrote:
> Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> 
> >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?
> 
> >>
> >
> >Not all ftp servers support that functionality, it
> would
> >appear that ftp.beastie.tdk.net (aka
> ftp.freebsd.org) does
> >not.  
> >
> This is undoubtedly a feature that was supported by
> the old 
> ftp.freebsd.org (aka ftp.cdrom.com).
> 
> If the current ftp.freebsd.org doesn't support it, I
> guess we should 
> remove this from the handbook, as I was unable to
> track down an ftp 
> mirror that does still support this feature. I'll do
> a PR.
> 
> Wayne, thanks for pointing out this problem to -doc!
> 
> Andrew.
> 


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