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From: bakul@BitBlocks.com
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: PREFIX with X11 ports 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:10:32 PDT."
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Reply-To: bakul@BitBlocks.com
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:48:30 -0700
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> Make fetch understand file:/... URLs, then add:

> 	file:/cdrom/distfiles

> to the MASTER_SITES list. :-)

[Along the same line of thought...]
Make the install program understand URLs, a bit of simple text
formatting and browsing and simple cgi scripts processing and, ugh,
some forms processing, and you've got a very slick installer!

Well, a thought anyway.