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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5846 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:57:52 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!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> Sender: news@demon.co.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous References: <1993Jan1.200415.10908@spectrum.xerox.com> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:15:44 GMT Lines: 12 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) G