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On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > How do I link it in with the port? Its like haveing two distfiles...how
> > does this affect the makefile?
> 
> Huh?  You can just stick it in ${FILESDIR} and copy it over in a
> pre-install rule, or something.  That part of the problem is easy to
> solve.

${FILESDIR} is a local directory. The man page will be on a remote server,
seperate from the one which the main source comes from so how do I get
them from the remote serverto ${FILESDIR}?

Thanks,

Andrew