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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:33:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>
To:        derekwong@ufsltd.com (Derek Wong)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Get source code?
Message-ID:  <199808261833.OAA04536@lucy.bedford.net>
In-Reply-To: <35E428D6.E5F19D50@ufsltd.com> from Derek Wong at "Aug 26, 98 11:25:11 am"

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Derek Wong wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to study the FreeBSD source code without installing it. Is there
> anyway just getting
> the source code without running the installation?
> Thank you in advance!
> Derek
> 

Sure. ftp to  ftp.freebsd.org.  then cd to /pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/src

Download all the files there.  These are of the form

xxx.aa, xxx.ab, xxx.ac....   yyy.aa,....

They can be cat'ted together to make a series of tar.gz files.

On Unix,

	cat sys.[a-z][a-z] >sys.tar.gz

gives the kernel sources. I have no idea how to do this on a system
without unix tools, but it's just a simple concatenation in
order.

These are all on the CDROM set, too.

Dave
-- 
             Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis.

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