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Sukhbinder Singh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I had downloaded the program files into my local disk running freebsd 
> but I
> am not able to run them. For, example I need to run emacs or netscape I
> cannot run them. Can someone please tell the steps of what I need to do in
> order to install these programs. They have been downloaded and is in my 
> local harddisk.
> Any help will be helpful.

Read this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html

If that doesn't answer your question, then please ask again with more detail.
It's difficult to understand exactly what you're doing from the description
you provide.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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