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From: "Mike." <the.lists@mgm51.com>
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Subject: Re: message at the end of a pkg install
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On 6/9/2014 at 2:29 PM Warren Block wrote:

|On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Mike. wrote:
|
|>
|> On 6/9/2014 at 6:16 PM Mike Clarke wrote:
|>
|> |On Monday 09 June 2014 13:01:42 Mike. Wrote:
|> |
|> |> So my question is:  how can I view that important message
|> |from the
|> |> port maintainer to me after it scrolls off the screen,  is it
|> |> persistent anywhere?
|> |
|> |pkg info -D pkgname
|> |
|> =============
|>
|>
|> Thank-you, that's it.
|>
|> btw, I don't see that on the man page for pkg, is it
debugging-only
|> type command?
|
|pkg has a man page, but subcommands have their own man pages named
with 
|a dash.  So 'man pkg-info' shows that one.  Another way to get there
is 
|'pkg help info'.
 =============

That's the part I missed.   Now looking at the pkg man page, I see
the pkg-info reference, plain as day, in the 'see also' section.  :(

Thanks for the follow-up.

Mike.