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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:12:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Derdau <sderdau@bit-net.com>
To: Albert Kinderman <albert.kinderman@email.csun.edu>
Cc: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FTP tar
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I've just tried this with the msql port.
get msql.tar
when I try to make install I get 
msql-2.0.3 is marked as broken: PR 5868: PLIST broken, not
PREFIX clean.  

Am I doing something wrong. 


			FreeBSD When It Matters
				

Thank You

/sd

On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Albert Kinderman wrote:

> Roman Katsnelson wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to install a port (pine) via FTP. In the Handbook, it says
> > that if, once logged on and in the proper directory I give
> >
> > ftp> get pine.tar
> >
> > then it will tar up that directory and get it. However, all that happens
> > (which I, being the cynic, expected anyway) is
> >
> > pine.tar is not a file or a directory
> 
> I just did it.  Everything was fine.  However, I did make the mistake of
> trying to
> get pine from the ports directory and got the pine.tar is not ... message [
> I
> should have been in ports/mail].  After changing to ports/mail, I typed
> get pin.tar and got the pin.tar is not ...  message.  Be sure you are in the
> 
> correct directory and don't make any spelling mistakes.
> 
> Al
> --
> Albert Kinderman               California State University, Northridge
> albert.kinderman@csun.edu             Department of Management Science
> 
> 
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