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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:29:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>,
        Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: newer pine?
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Vincent Poy wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 	I tried get port.tar.gz on cvsup2.FreeBSD.ORG when freefall wasn't
> available a few nights ago and it didn't work but I'll try that on
> freefall then.

I think Doug meant "port" as a sort of variable, here, where you would be
in the parent directory of the appropriate port and you'd type "get
port.tar.gz" where port = the name of the port you want. 

Or possibly you understood that, in which case I apologize.
 
> 
> Cheers,
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 Ben

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