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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 95 21:48:13 +0100
From:      Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
To:        paul@netcraft.co.uk
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tex and latex
Message-ID:  <9510032048.AA05524@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199510031732.SAA18477@alpha.netcraft.co.uk> (message from Paul Richards on Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:32:39 %2B0100 (BST))

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>>>>> Paul Richards writes:

 > I couldn't build either tex or latex because they use ftpget and it
 > doesn't understand how to get through firewalls (don't think it does
 > passive mode).

I have no solution to this problem :-( 

 > After gettin all the files by hand, I still couldn't build latex,

 > ===>  Building for latex2e-95.06
 > cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/print/latex/work/latex/base

This is probably because you did it by hand. The correct procedure is
	ncftp ftp.tex.ac.uk
	cd /tex-archive/macros
	get latex/base.tar.gz latex_base-95.06.tar.gz

(look at the makefile)

Jean-Marc

 > -- 
 >   Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd.
 >   Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk
 >   Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)

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