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Subject: Re: FW: non ported applications
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	Well if it's trivial, you should be able to just untar it
assuming it was tarred, read the README or some such that comes with it
and follow the instructions like
./configure
make   or whatever they want.
	If it's not trivial you may need to adjust the code.  Maybe you
can go by the error messages you see when you follow thier directions and
just tweak the code.  
	If it's worse than that you'll have to port it yourself.  See:
http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/
Good luck,

							Tim

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Christopher Leake wrote:

> 
> 
> Can anyone point me to some documentation on how to install non-port bound
> applications?  I can't seem to find much on the topic and seemed to have
> lost our bound copy of the FreeBSD handbook.
> thanks
> chris
> 
> 
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