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From: FreeBSD matters of Mark Huizer (xaa) <freebsd@xaa.stack.urc.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: CVSup
In-Reply-To: <199610100153.SAA00473@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Oct 9, 96 06:53:08 pm"
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> I realize that there is a big difference in scale here, i.e., the
> modula-3 installation is large.  That's why I also make statically
> linked CVSup binaries available.
> 
perhaps it would be an idea to add a 'new port' cvsup-binary, that
fetches it from that incoming dir on ftp.freebsd.org and nicely
installs it, making the need for ppl to ask about it using Modula-3 a
slittle smaller?

Mark Huizer