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Re: Tarred and Gzipped???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D.R. Merrin)
Mon Oct 28 13:02:22 1996
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:33:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "D.R. Merrin" <D.R.Merrin@newcastle.ac.uk>
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On 28 Oct 1996, Trond Eivind Glomsrxd wrote:
> "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
Downloading lots of files very quickly from sunsite tended to lose the
connection for some reason with ncftp. Besides, one big file is easier to
play with than lots of little ones.
I've got it now anyway.
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D.R.Merrin@ncl.ac.uk
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