From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 14:24:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA10984 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:24:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA10969 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:24:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00241; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:24:48 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:24:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /pub/FreeBSD/distfiles under ftp.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511188193.AA819336955@njcorp.akbs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Dec 1995 Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com wrote: > I went to ftp.freebsd.org/pub/distfiles directory. I saw a lot of files > there but there is no README file to explain what those files for. Can > you tell me what those files for? They are the original archives for the programs used in the ports distribution. You should not need them, the port will ftp them automatically. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major