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From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: discussion of porting Ports to other things?
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 02:18:12 -0700 (PDT)
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> md5 is easy.  But fetch is impossible!  Literally.  It relies on aspects
> of stdio that are only in 4.4BSD and there seems to be no portable
> equivalent.  This is one hellishly non-portable program!
> 
> I would suggest anyone interested in a more portable ports-chain, consider
> reimplementing libftpio and fetch in C++, or maybe some sort of C wrapper
> to behave like 4.4BSD stdio.  Any suggestions? (and don't say STREAMS! :-)

Why not just got back to ncftp (version 1.x) like 2.0 - 2.1 used.  Grab
/pub/FreeBSD-CVS/share/mk/bsd.port* and use RCS to extract that version
of the Makefile.

-- David