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On Wednesday 23 March 2005 18:21, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> 
wrote:
> You don't need to reinstall the OS, but it might be simpler for you
> if you deleted all the packages, with pkg_delete -a (from root). From
> there you can install cvsup and other essentials, but you might
> consider running /bin/sysinstall to reinstall the packages you once
> had, just so you're not running blind.

Ack! That should be /usr/sbin/sysinstall

Mea culpa ...

- jt