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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ports
Subject:   Re: ports/1834: ports/net/xgopher/pkg/COMMENT patch 
Message-ID:  <199610202210.PAA19839@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/1834; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>
To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, gpalmer@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/1834: ports/net/xgopher/pkg/COMMENT patch 
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:39:36 +0100

 Hi, Reference:
 > From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> 
 > Subject: Re: ports/1834: ports/net/xgopher/pkg/COMMENT patch 
 > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 20:03:54 +0300 (EET DST) 
 > Message-id: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961018200104.22962A@haldjas.folklore.ee> 
 >
 > 
 > 
 > On Thu, 17 Oct 1996 jhs@freebsd.org wrote:
 > 
 > [snip]
 > 
 > > 
 > >         net/xgopher A brown, furry creature for burroring through Gopherspa
 - ce.
 > > 
 > > is non standard & not informative, for 2 reasons:
 > > 	the tool name `gopher' is not explicit
 > > 	the user may not know what gopher is or where to get it.
 > > 
 > > >How-To-Repeat:
 > > 	As above
 > > 
 > > >Fix:
 > > 	patch enclosed
 > > 
 > > =====
 > > *** old/ports/net/xgopher/pkg/COMMENT	Thu Oct 17 14:55:16 1996
 > > --- new/ports/net/xgopher/pkg/COMMENT	Thu Oct 17 14:57:32 1996
 > > ***************
 > > *** 1 ****
 > > ! A brown, furry creature for burroring through Gopherspace.
 > > --- 1 ----
 > > ! An X-Windows front end for `gopher' (an internet fetching tool)
 > 
 > Bah! But this is no better. It makes me rub my hands and think - so here 
 > we have a tool to fetch internets... It just isn't much of an improvement 
 > IMHO.
 > 
 > 	Sander
 
 I first tried installing gopher & `man gopher` to get the original definition,
 but no luck, I agree mine's not great,
 If you can submit a better one line synopsis please do :-)
 
 Julian
 --
 Julian H. Stacey	jhs@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/



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