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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:09:49 -0800
From:      Scott Johnson <srj@nsd.3com.com>
To:        Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi>
Cc:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, Luis Cortez <saslcl@software-ag.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to download to floppy disks?
Message-ID:  <199603192309.AA12401@orodruin.NSD.3Com.COM>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960315103043.4386G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960318092439.3829F-100000@kanto.cc.jyu.fi>

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	kallio> On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Doug White wrote:
	>> No.  If you use FTP, you can use mget to fetch the entire
	>> directory.

	kallio> If you want to download everything from directory tree
	kallio> FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE use the command get
	kallio> FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE.tar

	kallio> It will push everything in one tar file and transfer
	kallio> it to you.

If you're going to do this, get `FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE.tar.gz' and a
copy of gnu tar or gunzip.  Much smaller file to pull across.

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