download source code on Linux

[David Kelly]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:08:08PM +0530, Onkar wrote:
> But I am finding no files with extension .c or .h
> [image: File:]generic.aa<ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/generic.aa>
> 1392
[...]
> what are these ??

Tarballs.

Grab ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.3-RELEASE/src/
then to get the files out of, say, scontrib, do something like this:

% cat scontrib.* | tar -xvzf -

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