Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 22:49:50 +1030 (CST) From: Kristian Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: wweng@stevens-tech.edu (Wei Weng) Cc: mark@newtoys.com.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4 Message-ID: <9711051219.AA29932@bragg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971105032141.2382A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> from "Wei Weng" at Nov 5, 97 03:26:49 am
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> > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Mark Midolla wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > This is probably a dumb question but here goes. > > When I look thru the ftp site at the ports225/www/netscape4 directory, > > there are only a few small files there. > > Wheres the actual archive of Netscape 4 ? > > > > Mark > > New Toys Multimedia > that is how port works. When you execute it, it actually pulls the > installation files off the ftp site and then automatically installs it. > But if you are behind a firewall, you have to use some sockified ftp > client. I am trying to figure it out. ^^ I solved this problem by setting the environment variable: setenv FETCH_CMD "runsocks /usr/bin/fetch" in my ~/.cshrc (or whatever dotfile your shell reads on startup) Kris
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