Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:53:55 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibly smoked my cvs tree :-( Message-ID: <199610022353.QAA15374@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961003001442.258A-100000@chain.iafrica.com> from "Khetan Gajjar" at Oct 3, 96 00:17:44 am
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Khetan Gajjar wrote: > > Mark Murray did suggest quite a few things, the most interesting being > cvssup. However, this assumes I've got modula3 installed. Over a dialup, > downloading a 10MB+ tar.gz file is not fun. I want to know if it will work > though - then I will do it. The (other) obvious alternative is to > re-download the whole tree - not attractive at all. get the binary distribution of cvsup. it is about 1.2 MB when gzipped, 3.2MB when expanded. you do *not* need modula-3 installed. the binary is statically linked. it is EXCELLENT! i can update in 5 minutes, used to take about 40. thank you, john polstra! jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB
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