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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:12:11 -0500
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Dan Trainor <dan@ript.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports browser
Message-ID:  <20020122121211.A62237@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken>; from dan@ript.org on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:19:59AM -0700
References:  <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken>

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You can just call up the ports tree in a web browser, or use the
FreeBSD.org web site; there's a link there to the ports collection.

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:19:59AM -0700, Dan Trainor wrote:
> Anyone know of an ncurses-based program or something that will let me
> browse my ports tree, and read me pkg-comment, pkg-descr, and plg-plist?
> I'd just like a more orderly way of browsing the list, and I don't feel
> like: cd port1; cat pkg*; (read for a while, ok) cd ..; cd port1; ....
> etc etc.  With over what was it, 1600 ports I believe, that becomes a
> pretty boring task.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -dt
> 
> 
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