From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 7 6:46:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tznet.com (smtp.tznet.com [206.31.5.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3A637BCA2 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 06:46:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murban@tznet.com) Received: from tznet.com ([205.216.111.117]) by smtp.tznet.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.52/64) id 2607900; Wed, 07 Jun 2000 08:46:45 -0500 Message-ID: <393E51D9.AF89D108@tznet.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 08:44:57 -0500 From: Michael Urban X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jim@luna.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 more problems.. References: <393DD69E.688C5367@tznet.com> <20000607033714.B690@luna.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message