From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 13:26:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09304 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 13:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA09292 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 13:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uplink.eng.umd.edu (uplink.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.181]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA29107; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 16:26:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by uplink.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15516; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 16:26:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: uplink.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 16:26:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@uplink.eng.umd.edu To: Annelise Anderson cc: Ken Marsh , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to find Kermit distfile In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > > > I'm trying to get the kermit port for FreeBSD. My CD-ROM doesn't have the > > distfile, cku190, and I can't find it on the FTP sites. > > Furthermore, none of the sites listed in the Makefile will let me do > > anonymous ftp. > > If you copy the kermit directory on the cdrom to your hard drive with > > cp -R /cdrom/ports/comms/kermit /usr/ports/kermit > > and then type make in the kermit directory that has Makefile, the > ftp to Columbia University will succeed--at least it did for me. > > Also the first site in the Makefile does allow anonymous ftp. Use > > ftp> open kermit.columbia.edu > > Next type ftp (for user) and then your e-mail address as a password. > > Then cd to the appropriate directory. You might note that it wasn't left off the cdrom accidentally. Columbia has a restrictive copyright on it, and won't allow anyone else to distribute the sources, so it couldn't have been put on the cdrom, unfortunately. > > Annelise > > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------