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From: Woody Carey <wcarey@cs.uoregon.edu>
To: Robert <mhi@internetmci.com>
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Subject: Re: ports
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Robert wrote:

> when you type "make install" for a port
> where does it look on MY system to try to find the tar.Z file??
> I have the gziped tar file and it always seems to try to get it from the
> ftp site.???
> please email response  
> thanks in advance
> Robert
> 


I have the same question/problem.  I am trying to use the ports scripts,
I guess, to install from a tarball (as they are called) copied from the
2.2.5 cd.  


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  Woody Carey            wcarey@cs.uoregon.edu   
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