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Re: Tarred and Gzipped???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Mon Oct 28 08:38:32 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 14:35:56 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91-941213.961028130018.22187D-100000@mere3.ncl.ac.uk> from "D.R. Merrin" at Oct 28, 96 01:02:13 pm
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> I'm trying to download RedHat-4.0 at the moment. Is there a compressed
> copy of everything anywhere. It would make life a lot easier to download
> one massive file rather than loads of small ones.
Some FTP-sites support "get dirname.tar" and "get dirname.tar.gz",
where "dirname" is the name of a directory, to retrieve a complete
directory in one step.
Note that the RPM files are already compressed, so you can probably
better use the normal (non-gz) variant of the above commando.
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