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Subject: Re: Wanted: Installation notes for FreeBSD
Message-ID: <2kvv9p$3k6@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 1 Mar 1994 17:50:49 GMT
References: <199402280437.VAA09875@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu>
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <199402280437.VAA09875@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu>,
Jerome Grimmer <ap995@freenet.hsc.colorado.edu> wrote:
>I tried ftp-ing the installation notes for FreeBSD from
>pdq.coe.montana.edu in Binary mode (the file appears to be compressed
>using Unix compress, but Unix compress won't decompress it).  Would
>someone please E-mail them to me?  Thanks.

That's cause pdq is kind of weird that way. :-)

Are they gzipped or just plain ASCII?  If you can't read them with gzip
then I suggest getting them from freebsd.cdrom.com.

(Besides, their network link is MUCH faster than the montana connection)


Nate

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