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Re: Tarred and Gzipped???

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D.R. Merrin)
Mon Oct 28 08:44:39 1996

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 13:41:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: "D.R. Merrin" <D.R.Merrin@newcastle.ac.uk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610281335.OAA31336@minnie.xos.nl>
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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.

Excellent! Sunsite supports this! Just what i need to brighten up my ever 
increasing dull day!

Thanks a lot.

--

Dave Merrin				http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~n343101
D.R.Merrin@ncl.ac.uk


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