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From: mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: getting freebsd
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:57:39 GMT
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ixfwin@kudonet.com (Tony P Lee) wrote:

>I tried to download freebsd release2.1.6\src\sbin.??.
>I use bin xfer mode for ftp on  a sun Unix machine..
>After this, I use cat"sbin.?? |tar tvf - " to test the download and it 
>always fail.  

The files are gzipped.  Usr tar -xzvf instead.

Lee C.