From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 19: 6:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5826537B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5279843E6E for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:06:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7226cOQ072793 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:06:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17aRpu-0003cl-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 21:06:38 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two unrelated questionlets. References: <20020801200523.W12462-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 01 Aug 2002 21:06:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020801200523.W12462-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Message-ID: <87bs8mf1zl.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 38 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-08-02T00:08:05Z, Peter Leftwich writes: > 1. I am reading up about CVSup and taking the time to absorb AMAP (as much > as possible): > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > They *could* begin by explaining what "sup" and "cvsup" stand for and by > telling the reader what a "source tree" is. Can someone clue me in? From "man cvs": NAME cvs - Concurrent Versions System CVS is a system for letting multiple authors work on the same set of source code, documentation, or other text-based data. Whenever two people make edits to the same file, CVS can help them "merge" their changes into the common data pool (the "source tree"). When you use cvs or cvsup to "check out" a "source tree", you're taking a snapshot of all of the data, computer code, configuration files, etc. that come together to make FreeBSD. CVSup is a program that works similarly to cvs (from an end-user's point of view), but usually runs much faster. It's common for FreeBSD users to call cvsup on a regular basis to keep their "source tree" up-to-date with the official copy. > 2. Is it possible -- i.e. HOW is it possible -- to email someone a > PGP-encrypted message (attachment) if they do not have a public key? I > never got that. PGP, GPG, etc. have "shared key" encryption modes. Call your friend on the phone, and tell him that the password will be "la jolla". Encrypt the file with that password (sometimes called "conventional encryption"), send it to him, and have him decrypt it with the same password. Voila! -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message