From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 17:27: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4980B37BF93 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.248] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ea397726 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:26:42 -0500 From: Walter Brameld To: Brett Taylor , Alex Subject: Re: List of ports and descriptions ? Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:24:27 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00032120264000.02231@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Alex wrote: > > > Just spend 20 minutes searching the freebsd.org site for the old list > > of ports and short descriptions. Seems those links have dissappeared. > > freebsd.org/ports isn't a clue. > > Uh, www.freebsd.org/ports - click on a category - it tells you everything > in that category w/ a short description for each. Long descriptions are > one click away. > > Brett You can have the same thing on your pc, and more current as occasionally I will find the website does not have a listing for an existing port. Simply cd to /usr/ports, then type "make readmes". When it completes, point your browser at file /usr/ports/README.html. -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message