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Date:      Sat, 20 Jul 1996 00:54:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   ftp.uu.net, ncftp, and fetch
Message-ID:  <199607200454.AAA05172@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>

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Ok,

What I've got is actually distributed as four files.  To make things
simple, I decided I would use the auto-tar&gzip feature of the 
ftp.uu.net.  This is what I have in the Makefile (relevant only),

DISTNAME=       slnr
MASTER_SITES=   ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/readers/off-line/

The actual directory where the package is stored on ftp.uu.net is

networking/news/readers/off-line/slnr/

Looking through bsd.port.mk, this should work.  My 2.2-960501-SNAP
system still uses ncftp instead of fetch.  The problem is that
ncftp doesn't seem able to logon to ftp.uu.net when passed a url 
on the command line.  I suspect the reason is the ftp.uu.net insists
only outputting it's welcome message at a speed of about 1 line @ 
second.

The question is, then...  Is using the auto-tar&gzip feature of
ftp.uu.net going to cause problems for fetch?  (It doesn't
particularly matter for ncftp anyways, since it can't logon).

I would've just simply gotten and compiled fetch from the 
-current sources but fetch seems to require some newer stuff
I don't have.


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