Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:20:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: eklee@pa.dec.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD tar files? Message-ID: <19990402132028.T413@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com>; from Edward K. Lee on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:56:20PM -0800 References: <370431D4.25B344F5@pa.dec.com>
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On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 18:56:20 -0800, Edward K. Lee wrote: > This may be a silly question, but why are there no tar files for the > FreeBSD distributions? Are we really supposed to ftp each > individual file/directory? Why, are there no tar files for the FreeBSD distributions? In fact, what you get are chunks of compressed tar files. For example, the base distribution contains the following files: bin.aa bin.ab bin.ac bin.ad bin.ae bin.af bin.ag bin.ah bin.ai bin.aj bin.ak bin.al bin.am bin.an bin.ao bin.ap bin.aq bin.ar bin.as bin.at bin.au bin.av bin.aw bin.ax bin.ay bin.az bin.ba bin.bb bin.bc bin.bd bin.be bin.bf bin.bg bin.bh bin.bi bin.bj bin.bk bin.bl bin.bm bin.bn bin.bo bin.bp bin.bq bin.br bin.bs bin.bt bin.bu bin.bv bin.bw bin.bx bin.by bin.bz bin.ca bin.cb bin.cc bin.cd bin.ce bin.cf bin.cg bin.ch bin.ci bin.cj bin.ck bin.cl bin.cm bin.cn bin.co bin.cp bin.cq bin.cr bin.cs bin.ct bin.cu bin.cv bin.cw bin.cx bin.cy bin.cz bin.da bin.db bin.dc bin.dd bin.de bin.df bin.dg bin.dh bin.di bin.dj bin.dk bin.dl bin.dm bin.dn bin.do bin.dp bin.dq bin.dr bin.ds bin.dt bin.du bin.dv bin.dw bin.dx They're each (except for the last one) 240 kB long for easy download. Join them together and you have one big compressed tar file. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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