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Date:      Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:48:53 -0500
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
To:        Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>, hackers list FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: are the ports README.html in the cvs repository?
Message-ID:  <19980206164853.34921@mph124.rh.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980206155249.7482E-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>; from Charles Owens on Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 04:15:22PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980206155249.7482E-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>

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On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 04:15:22PM -0500, Charles Owens wrote:

> ... then the resulting ports tree does _not_ contain the README.html
> files.  Do I need to do something special to get them to appear?	

You can produce it with 'make README.html'.

> If I'm wondering what a particular port is I don't really want to have to
> do a 'make extract' and scrounge through the src for docs.

That is unnecessary.  The files "pkg/COMMENT" and "pkg/DESCR" contain
the info that goes into README.html, so I just read those instead
of generating README.html.

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