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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:32:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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, Snob Art Genre wrote:

> > 	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.

	Oh okay, but isn't there a way to go one level higher and just
grab the entire thing?