Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:29:16 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newer pine? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970225042751.7162A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970225042646.272D-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > > > Now a good question is how does one get the ports tree for 2.1.7 > > > on a machine? I know in -current, using cvsup will do the -current ports > > > tree. > > > > The magic is in the tag keyword, but I find it infintely easier to just > > download ports as I need them from ftp.freebsd.org. Don't forget you can > > do 'get port.tar.gz' to get an entire directory archived. > > I tried get port.tar.gz on cvsup2.FreeBSD.ORG when freefall wasn't > available a few nights ago and it didn't work but I'll try that on > freefall then. I think Doug meant "port" as a sort of variable, here, where you would be in the parent directory of the appropriate port and you'd type "get port.tar.gz" where port = the name of the port you want. Or possibly you understood that, in which case I apologize. > > Cheers, > Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ > Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] > GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] > Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] > HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] > > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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