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Date:      Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:36:27 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Pedro Giffuni S." <pedro@unb15.campus.unal.edu.co>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: MH mail: part II (Final Reply) 
Message-ID:  <28117.830802987@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:43:44 BST." <8816.830799824@palmer.demon.co.uk> 

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> Umm. It worked several times from the 2.1R CDROM for me, at least. It
> won't (and can't) work from a DOS partition as the names are truncated
> (Thanks, Microsoft), and I don't think anyone ever thought of doing

Correct.  I have a small script which someone donated for correcting
the package names using the INDEX - I'll include it in the utils
directory of the next CDROM.

> packages over NFS ... if I remember right it's ``undefined'' what will
> happen in this case. Jordan may correct me however.

Installing packages over NFS works just fine - it's just like fetching
them from the local filesystem as far as the package installer is
concerned.  Same goes for tape.

						Jordan




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