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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!atha!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 17 Nov 1995 13:49:53 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <48i0dh$g8n@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <48aoee$j59@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <30A9C704.5D0C6A5@FreeBSD.org> <DI37qp.Jyo@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:27293 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8892 comp.unix.advocacy:10999 comp.unix.misc:19483 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:8841 Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote: >Note, my experience has been that a noticeable portion of the ports >are broken. The pine/pico and tcsh ports come to mind. Dunno about pine, but where has tcsh been broken? I've compiled my own version some time ago in order to replace the buggy binary that was on the 2.0.5 CD. (This was the tcsh version that took forever to start on a machine with a slow network connection.) >p.s. For future reference, where does one send a port? :) freebsd-ports@freebsd.org If it's just a fix for an existing port, better yet use send-pr(1). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)