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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 21:01:22 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Ports INDEX browser update
Message-ID:  <199612031031.VAA09946@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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Okay all you INDEX-browsing junkies out there, the latest update to
PIB is out and happening!  ftp://gsoft.com.au/pub/pib.tcl.gz

 - configurable (saveable) preferences!
 - more colour!
 - more speed!
 - online help!

Thanks to Satoshi's changes to the files/md5 format, there are only
two ports out of the 660 that I have online that are causing any
trouble; pgp (uses files.usa and files.usa) and postgres95 (md5 files
have different names).

I'd really like to hear from someone with a large collection of
distfiles, to hear how long the full scan takes.  Running md5 over the
thousand or so distfiles isn't going to be the quickest, and perhaps I
need to implement a cache of some sorts for checksums...

If people actually think this is worthwhile, I'd appreciate hearing
from you (thanks Jordan and Satoshi 8); ideas and input are welcome,
without them I might as well just dump it 8(

I'm also a bit wary of blowing my own horn; should I perhaps be
advertising PIB more widely?

(Note to the curious; PIB is a browser for the FreeBSD ports collection.
 It requires Tk 4.0 or later installed, and, of course, a ports collection.
 It should also run on OpenBSD and NetBSD without modification!)

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