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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:42:04 +0100 (BST)
From:      J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Nicq for FreeBSD???
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9910041441520.8303-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991004145022.U63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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Thanks.  Do you know if it works pretty well?

jcm

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:

|On [19991004 04:18], J McKitrick (jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) wrote:
|>Has anyone gotten this client to compile/run?  If so, how?  I haven't
|>tried yet cause i'm new and i don't want to mess anything up. 
|
|In your home directory create a dir called extract
|
|cd to that dir
|
|assuming it is a tar.gz package simply do tar xvfz
|../wherever/you/placed/the/file.tar.gz
|
|and it will extract and gzip -d the contents into a seperate directory
|in the extract directory [at least if it was packaged in the nicq-x.y
|way].
|
|Now follow the instructions on how to compile it. Merely compiling it
|won't damage your system, not `infect' it with crud. Only when you make
|install it will you make modifications to the base system.
|
|Hope this helps to lower your `fear' of trying to compile things =)
|
|Kind regards,
|
|-- 
|Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
|The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
|Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
|My name is Legion: for we are many.
|
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