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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!gtoal
- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Where are tar files of bsd net-2 tapes?
- Message-ID: <C08II9.16C@demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <1993Jan1.200415.10908@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:15:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.200415.10908@spectrum.xerox.com> leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com writes:
- :All the archives I've seen of the BSD net-2 tapes are lots and lots of
- :compressed files (i.e. on ftp.uu.net).
- :
- :Where is everything in a few tar files (like the X11 distribution...)
-
- I don't know, but doesn't uunet's ftp server let you fetch whole
- directories as tar files just by saying get dirname.tar ? (don't ask for
- dirname.tar.Z if the files are already compressed - save yourself some
- redundant cpu time)
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- G
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