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From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: bin/5074: fetch cannot retrieve a URL
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5074; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/5074: fetch cannot retrieve a URL
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:57:49 -0500

 On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 08:38:33PM -0700, Marc Slemko wrote:
 
 > The server is broken.  Use the -t option to fetch to work around it.  I
 > tried to contact them months ago to see what broken monstrosity they were
 > using for an OS, but (predictably) got no response.
 
 Thanks, verified.
 
 > Not sure if there is a nice way to have a port automatically add this...
 > hmm...
 
 Reading /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk, it looks like there are knobs
 for arguments to fetch; it shouldn't be a problem.
 
 This PR may be closed, thanks for the help.
 Matthew
 
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