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Re: Tarred and Gzipped???

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Mon Oct 28 12:29:38 1996

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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 28 Oct 1996 17:54:56 +0100
In-Reply-To: "D.R. Merrin"'s message of Mon, 28 Oct 1996 13:02:13 +0000 (GMT)
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com

"D.R. Merrin" <D.R.Merrin@newcastle.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.

Why?

get *

works fine with ncftp, and

mget *

works fine with vanilla ftp.
And the RPMs are already compressed, so yout gain anything there.


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