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Subject: Re FETCH .. distfiles/ .. Was Re: Mutt mail, ..2.0.5
To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:09:35 -0800 (PST)
Cc: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <34562088.BF8@barcode.co.il> from "Nadav Eiron" at Oct 28, 97 07:27:37 pm
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Nadav, et al,

<N> efb@cotdazr.org wrote:
<E> on my F.Bsd 2.0.5 not having fetch to make mutt-pgp (YES I am resident
<E>          setenv USA_RESIDENT YES ; make -dA
<E> Examining pre-fetch...non-existent...non-existent and no sources...
<E> pre-fetch:> =
<E> ftp: illegal option -- o
<E> usage: ftp [-dginptv] [host [port]]
<E> *** Error code 1
<E>  ...
<E> Stop.

<E> I GUESS I am (1) using an obsolete FTP that finds a "-o" option I
<E> searched and dont know where .. and (2) I should have a prog named

<N> No. IIRC, fetch(1) was introduced with 2.1.5R. You can look at the
<N> man pages available on the web site to check out its options. If
<N> your only problem is with fetching the distribution files, simply
<N> download the files required (which you'll find in the port's
<N> Makefile) by hand and place them in /usr/ports/distfiles. The
<N> makefile tries there before it attempts to fetch from the net.

==========================================================================
Nadav .. I am affraid it was NOT that simple..

HAS NOT CHANGED ... with adding  mutt-0.84.tar.gz (429976) to 
 /usr/ports/distfiles
==========================================================================
STILL NO 
  pre-fetch...non-existent...non-existent and no sources...out-of-date.
==========================================================================
STILL ILLEGAL OPTION
  ftp: illegal option -- o
  usage: ftp [-dginptv] [host [port]]
==========================================================================
WHERE CAN I GET A portable fetch for 2.0.5 and what does it depend on???
==========================================================================
<N> Nadav

/Ev/

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