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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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	Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:41:22 -0600
	From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>

	>>         man portsnap
	>>
	>> Does is work on non amd64/i386 arches
	>> (sparc64 and ia64 specifically)?
	> 
	> Honestly couldn't tell you, as I have no experience with or access to
	> non-x86 systems.

	portsnap is a shell script.  I don't how it could fail in any
	architecture, as long as standard utilities like tar and gunzip work.

Thanks

Anton