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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!mitch4 From: mitch4@netcom.com (mitch goldstrom) Subject: Elm Work Finally! Message-ID: <mitch4DLpKyx.J7q@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 23:23:21 GMT Lines: 38 Sender: mitch4@netcom21.netcom.com I finally got elm to work OK. The way I did it was kinda funky though. I tried lndir-ing the /usr/ports directpry like the handbook said and that didn't work because I didn't have XFree86 or something like that. I looked for it, but it wasn't really clear how to get it or how to load it. So here is what I did. mkdir -p /usr/ports/mail cd /cdrom/ports cp Makefile /usr/ports cd mail cp Makefile /usr/ports/mail cp -r elm /usr/ports/mail/elm cd /cdrom/ports/distfiles cp elm* /usr/ports/distfiles cd /usr/ports/mail/elm make;make install The make command will unpack the archive and then run configure in such a manner that you only have to accept the defaults for FreeBSD. Read the questions carefully though. I had to run it twice because I accepted the default of yes to the ispell wuestion when I didn't have it on my machine. Now I have elm and I am happy. - Mitch P.S. Thanks for all that helped. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Mitch Goldstrom Visual f/x Inc. mitch@visfx.com Work: (310) 475-4959 Narf! Fax: (310) 475-2878 How cold is it where you are?? ------------------------------------------------------------