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Date:      Mon, 03 Jan 2000 15:46:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
To:        Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, chat@FreeBSD.org, "Dr. Brain" <drbrain@toxic.magnesium.net>
Subject:   RE: Uptimes project has moved
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000103154607.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001031354540.14431-100000@kronos.alcnet.com>

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On 03-Jan-00 Kelly Yancey wrote:
>   Unforunately, the new upclient requires all the parameters (login
> userid, password, hostID, and optional proxy info) to be compiled in. I do
> not see any reasonable way to port this. The best I could do is bomband
> require the user to specify all that information in the make command-line.
> Unless someone else wants to do that, I'm just going to flag the port as
> broken and wait until they fix the port to use a config file/command-line
> parameters again.

It would be fairly trivial for me to write some code that'll take commandline
options. getopt() is your friend. :-)

If there is sufficient demand, I'll be happy to donate about 10 minutes to do
this.

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