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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Where are tar files of bsd net-2 tapes?
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In article <1993Jan1.200415.10908@spectrum.xerox.com> leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com writes:
:All the archives I've seen of the BSD  net-2 tapes are lots and lots of 
:compressed files (i.e. on ftp.uu.net).
:
:Where is everything in a few tar files (like the X11 distribution...)

I don't know, but doesn't uunet's ftp server let you fetch whole
directories as tar files just by saying get dirname.tar ? (don't ask for
dirname.tar.Z if the files are already compressed - save yourself some
redundant cpu time)

G