You could always ftp down the source tarballs :)

		David/abs

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On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Simon J DeBoer wrote:

> Just for clarification and to add another question to my group:
> 
> The story as it stands is that I have a max of 1 hour per connection to 
> the net, in that time I may not be able to download one whole sup 
> package.  Because of this I have to restart SUP the next time I connect 
> to the net, I do this with the -o option.  Fine...
> 
> Problem is that it keeps getting the same files, I have now received the 
> source to the /usr/src/sys/compat/* thrice while attempting to reconnect 
> to sup.netbsd.org and I have never been able to get past whatever source 
> code file it happens to be on when the connection must go down.
> 
> What do I do?  Wait for other people to tar them up and put them out as 
> snapshots?  (For non-kernel stuff this doesn't bother me too much...it 
> doesn't change quickly)
> 
> 	Help would be greatly appreciated...
> 		Simon
>