From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 5 04:20:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA06552 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 04:20:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA06537 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 04:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (5.65/AndrewR-930902) id AA13760; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 22:49:51 +1030 From: Kristian Kennaway Received: by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA29932; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 22:49:51 +1030 Message-Id: <9711051219.AA29932@bragg> Subject: Re: Netscape 4 To: wweng@stevens-tech.edu (Wei Weng) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 22:49:50 +1030 (CST) Cc: mark@newtoys.com.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Wei Weng" at Nov 5, 97 03:26:49 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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