From: ron@empire.cce.cornell.edu (Ron Pool) Subject: Re: SLS As One Tar File Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 16:12:48 GMT
Peter MacDonald (pmacdona@sanjuan) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan30.181439.23098@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
: >Is there a single tar file for SLS available somewhere? I.e. something that
: >builds the directory structure on tsx once untarred?
: >
: >It is a real pain to hand-connect to each directory and download it.
: >
: >/ivo welch
: Why not just do
: mkdir a1 a2 a3 .... x6
: ftp tsx...
: cd pub/linux/SLS
: bin
: prompt
: mget */*
: mget *
The ftp daemon on tsx-11 is smart enough to tar up directories for you if you
ask it to. I've done the following on tsx-11 before:
binary
cd /pub/linux/SLS
get a3.tar
the get a3.tar will tar up the a3 directory before shipping it to you.
Cou could actually request SLS.tar, but if you don't really need
everything in the SLS directory you'll end up wasting network
bandwidth, tsx-11 CPU time, and local disk space.
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