From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 3 12:20:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A1D14C34 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 12:20:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-15-188.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.15.188]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA07714; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:18:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA66194; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:18:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199904032018.OAA66194@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chris Fletcher Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: kermit In-reply-to: Message from Chris Fletcher of "Sun, 04 Apr 1999 00:19:55 +1000." <3706238B.25FBA989@aneki.sub.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 14:18:07 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Fletcher writes: > Hello there. > > I have just installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 from CD and wanted to install > Minicom. This package has > kermit as a listed dependancy. However I can't find kermit on the CD's > or on the FreeBSD ftp site. > > I have removed the kermit dependancy from the script and installed > without it. (I'll live without it) > but I would be curious as to where the package can be obtained. # cd /usr/ports/comms/kermit # make install The above will download, verify, patch, compile, and install kermit. You might notice in /usr/ports/comms/kermit/Makefile the line: RESTRICTED= "'No redistribution' copyright" Which means one can't put kermit on CDROM or ftp site without special permission from the copyright holders. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message