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Subject: Re: PREFIX with X11 ports
From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi Asami)
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 * Make fetch understand file:/... URLs, then add:
 * 
 * 	file:/cdrom/distfiles
 * 
 * to the MASTER_SITES list. :-)

That is very clever. :)

So, it's going to copy files from the CDROM to the hard drive the
first time they are used.  If you don't want that, you can use lndir
first.  Is this correct?

Satoshi