From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 22:45:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h011.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87DB037B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:45:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 27691 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2001 22:45:32 -0800 Received: from dsl-64-192-216-221.telocity.com (HELO attglobal.net) (64.192.216.221) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.217) with SMTP; 20 Jan 2001 22:45:32 -0800 X-Sent: 21 Jan 2001 06:45:32 GMT Message-ID: <3A6A866F.BD1C898A@attglobal.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:49:19 -0500 From: Carl Speare Reply-To: carlds@attglobal.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Suggestion for FTP Sites Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG With the advent of DSL and such, wouldn't it make sense to also have a tar/gzip of the full releases? For example, it would be nice to be able to download freebsd-4.2.tar.gz in one huge shot, instead of having to recurse through numerous directories with wget or such in order to download the latest version. (Though I also do buy regular versions, and am a supporting member...) --Carl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message