Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:26:29 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hysterical Raisons Message-ID: <199602171926.UAA00887@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199602171810.UAA11713@cantina.clinet.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Feb 17, 96 08:10:25 pm
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As Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > Are you quite sure about this? Most of stuff in our local/bin is installed > from original source, not from ports. I use ports as a last resort, not as > the primary source. You are about the only one. :) I use packages wherever they fit my needs, then ports, then resort to the icky way of finding the source myself, fighting with it to get it compiled, etc. > Last time we used ports we got a shareware version > which would cost $2000 to register, for functionality I think I can arrange > to be written from scratch for the same price, though there already is > older free version (this was zmodem). zmodem is certainly the only one of this kind. There should also be a port of the older, freeware zmodem. Just like it has been done for ghostscript: you can select between the freeware version 2, and the shareware version 3. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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