From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 10 13: 2:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz (ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.19.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9941152BC for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:02:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkop5230@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz) Received: from beta.ms.mff.cuni.cz (mkop5230@beta.ms.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.16.70]) by ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01500; Mon, 10 May 1999 22:02:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (mkop5230@localhost) by beta.ms.mff.cuni.cz (980427.SGI.8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA52692; Mon, 10 May 1999 22:02:10 +0200 (MDT) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:02:10 +0200 From: Milan Kopacka Reply-To: Milan Kopacka To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux compat question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 May 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Get "file" package from your favorite Linux mirror site. :) > > No, 1) there is no "file" package (at least not in Debian, I checked) > 2) the "fileutils" package, which I did find, didn't have file. The file package contained in RH Linux originates from ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ I think you can track such information in Debian easily too. > I don't think I need it anymore, but since I got this same advice now > from two places, it seems the old adage holds: the only folks who will > give you directions are those who don't know where it is. Nice. :) Milan Kopacka To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message