From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 17 11:52:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA24698 for current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:52:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24693 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 11:51:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA00914 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:51:53 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA28140 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:51:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id UAA00887 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:26:29 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602171926.UAA00887@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Hysterical Raisons To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 20:26:29 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602171810.UAA11713@cantina.clinet.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Feb 17, 96 08:10:25 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)