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Subject: Re: My wishlist 
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 18:55:17 +0200
From: "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Ref. Satoshi's request for comments,
& this from Paul Richards <paul@lambda.demon.co.uk>:

> Another flag GETALL perhaps could be added to those ports that can be
> fetched without compiling some other port first.

I guess a lot of us connect via expensive dial up ?
& sometimes we need to be connected to do something interactive,
but we can see the modem lights not blinking much, & know we're wasting
expensive bandwidth .... ?

Then would be a good time to have some kind of 
	"cd /usr/ports ; make fetch_all_distfiles_i_don't_have_yet"
type of functionality.

Julian S.