From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 4 17:56:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA11714 for current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11705 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:56:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04443; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 17:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610050056.RAA04443@austin.polstra.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Jake Hamby Subject: Re: Wow, CVSup is cool! In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 17:56:31 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just one small point ... > The savings in time will make up for the initial 5MB Modula-3 > download in your first or second usage. Or get the statically linked executable. It's around 1.1 MB, and you don't need anything else in order to run it. It's available from: ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/pub/CVSup/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/ ftp://ftp.polstra.com/pub/FreeBSD/CVSup/ (slow; avoid if possible) in the file "cvsup-bin-13.4.tar.gz". > (it even has a nifty X11 GUI!) ... with the _ugliest_ scrollbars in the world! Jordan hates them. The GUI is pretty worthless right now, as a tool for configuring the program. It's mostly just a very complicated pacifier. :-) I have lots of ideas for it, but more important features keep coming first. FWIW, in the next release it will be easy to build the client without the GUI, in case you don't have X11 or don't want such a large memory image. > (Another happy FreeBSD customer who is right now reading the Modula-3 > web page, since I've got the compiler installed :-) It's a clunky looking language, until you get used to it. But it sure has been a pleasure to work with, for this application. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth