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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 1995 22:29:56 -0600 (CDT)
From:      Tom Jackson <tjackson@tulsix.utulsa.edu>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        tjackson@tulsix.utulsa.edu (Tom Jackson)
Subject:   Try this
Message-ID:  <9510120329.AA27617@tulsix.utulsa.edu>

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Hello there,

As a very happy FreeBSD user I want to help all I can with the effort
to improve it. Due to my inexperience my contributions will start off
slow but I hope to take on more as time marches on.

Two small things for consideration in 2.1:

Ever since I started with 2.0R I really enjoyed the port of ImageMagick
but a few things have been broken on it. In 2.0.5R the program does not
recognize targa files without preceding the filename with 'tga:' and the
gzip/compress feature has never worked. After I upgraded my system, I had
to go to XFree86 v3.1.2 and I got version 3.6.6 of ImageMagick to finally
get it working right. This version recognizes targa files but the gzip/
compression feature did'nt work. Long story short, in the two files
encode.c and decode.c in the subdirectory magick, the references to file
mode type should be changed from "rb" and "wb" to "r" and "w". All works
now. I'm trying to learn the porting process but I hope you can get this
into 2.1R.

Another small thing not related to ports, the GNU man program does not 
find personal man pages in your home directory as the docs say it does.
My fix is to turn the suid off for man. This seems to work perfect now.

Hope this helps some. I'll keep trying and learning. Thank you for your
effort,

Tom			tjackson@tulsix.utulsa.edu



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