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From: ixfwin@kudonet.com (Tony P Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: getting freebsd
Date: 24 Jan 1997 03:10:08 GMT
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I tried to download freebsd release2.1.6\src\sbin.??.
I use bin xfer mode for ftp on  a sun Unix machine..
After this, I use cat"sbin.?? |tar tvf - " to test the download and it 
always fail.  

Does anyone has any idea why?  What's the catch?

Thanks

-Tony