Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 02:12:08 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca> Cc: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting source tree via ftp Message-ID: <3CA3CD78.1060109@cream.org> References: <20020328221900.34725.qmail@web14708.mail.yahoo.com> <20020328174451.A1309@constans.gldis.ca>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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