Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:35:49 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newer pine? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970225043254.7205A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970225043138.272E-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > I tried get port.tar.gz on cvsup2.FreeBSD.ORG when freefall wasn't > > > available a few nights ago and it didn't work but I'll try that on > > > freefall then. > > > > I think Doug meant "port" as a sort of variable, here, where you would be > > in the parent directory of the appropriate port and you'd type "get > > port.tar.gz" where port = the name of the port you want. > > > > Or possibly you understood that, in which case I apologize. > > Oh okay, but isn't there a way to go one level higher and just > grab the entire thing? Sure: ftp> pwd 257 "/.16/FreeBSD" is current directory. ftp> get ports-2.1.6.tar.gz local: ports-2.1.6.tar.gz remote: ports-2.1.6.tar.gz 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /usr/bin/tar. ^C Receive aborted. > > > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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