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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: application ports wanted :)
Date: 1 Nov 1993 17:50:20 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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Message-ID: <2b3i8s$2en@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <2b2oos$1n5@tut.msstate.edu>
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In article <2b2oos$1n5@tut.msstate.edu>,
Priviledged Acct. <root@cy.cs.olemiss.edu> wrote:
>
>[i'm just toooo lazy to port them over myself :)]
>
>has anyone ported any of the following apps. to FreeBSD:
>
>ytalk
>xvnews (can it be ported over to FreeBSD?)
>any news readers? 

Trn compiles w/out a hitch with/without NNTP support.

>Anyone who's ported any apps. over to FreeBSD, and wouldn't mind
>uploading/letting me upload the binaries to a ftp site, please email
>me and i'll post a summary of all apps. ported over. (unless the
>FreeBSD team is already doing this -- other than the pkg. stuff) 

If you get them done, please inform the FreeBSD team, (or join the
FreeBSD team as a package maintainer) and we can make those nice easy to
install packages out of them.


Nate

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