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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: More canned apps for FreeBSD available [was Re: Perl-4.036?] In-Reply-To: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za's message of 12 Sep 93 20: 51:41 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Sep13040837@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <26fptu$1q1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <26g7srINNppg@xs4all.hacktic.nl> <CD9Dy6.B51@hippo.ru.ac.za> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 04:08:37 GMT Lines: 22 >FWIW, I've yet to find an off the shelf package to compile on >FreeBSD-1.0. Not elm2.4, not screen-3.5.0, not several others. While I >have no pressing need for any of these packages, it would be nice to That's very strange - I tend to find that things compile rather easily. In any case, there are a number of additional things now packaged up and ready to go on: freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/packages Including elm (both ready-to-run binary, and ready-to-compile) and screen both! There - I've just put the perl source there as well! What more can you ask for! What? The binary release too? Grumble... Ok, done. (hope it works, I just used a couple of less commonly used pkg_install features in the process of doing it! gulp..). Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie