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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:43:01 -0700
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Virus Announcements 
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Sorry, you can't do it in diff(1), because it has to be created ex
nihilo. Oh, and there are no docs on how to do it; the man pages
for pkg_add and pkg_info are (characteristically) mute on how
to MAKE a package.

--Brett

At 01:55 AM 3/30/99 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:


>On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:03:00 MST, Brett Glass wrote:
>
>> Of course, I'll probably be told that this is a bad idea because
>> Jordan didn't think of it.
>
>It's a bad idea because the people throwing ideas around are speaking
>English and not diff(1).
>
>Ciao,
>Sheldon.



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