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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!agis!vtc.tacom.army.mil!news1.oakland.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!pulsar.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Getting FreeBSD via FTP Date: 11 Jun 1995 18:06:31 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3rfbb7$9ku@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <3reu1t$hs1$1@mhade.production.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pulsar.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Kyle Rollin (102331.2147@CompuServe.COM) had the courage to say: : Is there a FTP site that ZIPs up FreeBSD? My FTP site I'm going : to does not zip it, and it's a pain to download 30-some odd 235K : files. Can anybody point me to a site where they ZIP it? : Many thanks! : The files *are* zipped. All of the bin.aa through bin.whatever files are actually 240K chunks of one giant gzipped tar archive. Ditto for the other pieces. Everything is already compressed for you: compressing it again won't do anything except waste time. If you really don't want to download the distribution over the net, you could always wait until Walnut Creek presses the CD-ROM and buy it from them. (Shameless plug.) : -- : Kyle Rollin : -Team OS/2 Uh... yeah. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~