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On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

> 	Now a good question is how does one get the ports tree for 2.1.7
> on a machine?  I know in -current, using cvsup will do the -current ports
> tree.

The magic is in the tag keyword, but I find it infintely easier to just
download ports as I need them from ftp.freebsd.org.   Don't forget you can
do 'get port.tar.gz' to get an entire directory archived.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major