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To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Wow, CVSup is cool! 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Oct 1996 13:50:53 PDT."
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 19:09:43 -0700
From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com>
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> After complaining about some problems I had with sup4.freebsd.org (it
> repeatedly fetched large chunks of contrib even though nothing, other than
> the datestamp, had changed!), I decided to try out CVSup, even though it
> involves installing the 5MB Modula-3 package first.

     John has precompiled cvsup binaries available, and so you didn't
have to install M3.

> Anyway, kudos to John Polstra for an excellent piece of software (it even
> has a nifty X11 GUI!).  The savings in time will make up for the initial
> 5MB Modula-3 download in your first or second usage.  EVERYONE who is
> currently using SUP to get FreeBSD-current should give CVSup a try, it is
> that good!

     I'll second the notion!

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

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