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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:37:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Graham Jenkins <grahamj@webnet.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD via Email 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027153646.13440C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199710260307.OAA18377@kirk>

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On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Graham Jenkins wrote:

> >                                  RELEASE NOTES
> >                              FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE
> > --
> > If you do not have access to the Internet and electronic mail is your
> > only recourse, then you may still fetch the files by sending mail to
> > `ftpmail@ftpmail.vix.com' - putting the keyword "help" in your message
> > to get more information on how to fetch files using this mechanism.
> 
> If I did it this way, which files would I have to request - and from
> where?  I couldn't see any entire distribution file(s) - and I don't
> fancy making individual requests for dozens (hundreds?) of files.

You would be better served by buying the CDROM than using this method.
The distribution files are split into 240k chunks and there are >50 of
them for the bin distirbution alone.

They can be fetched from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.5-RELEASE.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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