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Date:      Wed, 07 Jun 2000 08:44:57 -0500
From:      Michael Urban <murban@tznet.com>
To:        jim@luna.cdrom.com
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2 more problems..
Message-ID:  <393E51D9.AF89D108@tznet.com>
References:  <393DD69E.688C5367@tznet.com> <20000607033714.B690@luna.cdrom.com>

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That's what I tried the first couple times cause that is the way they
explained it in the handbook. But below is my exact input, and then the
response I get:

vampire# shar 'find icepref' > icepref.txt
[: closing paren expected
[: icepref: unexpected operator
sed: find: No such file or directory


Jim Mock wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 at 23:59:10 -0500, Michael Urban wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I am having two more problems that I need some help with.
> >
> > #1: I am not understanding how to use "shar". I have read the man
> > page and the section in the porting chapter. Shar just doesn't seem to
> > be working when I follow the directions.
>
> Just run something like this..
>
>     # shar `find port_dir` > filename
>
> Where ``port_dir'' is the name of the port directory that you've just
> created, and filename is the filename you want to save the output to
> (makes it a lot easier for pasting, etc.).
>
> For example, if your port is named foo..
>
>     # shar `find foo` > foo.txt
>
> > #2: I cannot use send-pr since from what I have read, there is not
> > way to specify an SMTP server to it, and I am not using an MTA on my
> > system.
>
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html
>
> - jim
>
> --
> - jim mock - BSDi -- open source documentation manager -- jim@BSDi.com -
> - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org -



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