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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.inap.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4lqkk4$o0@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <4laudl$q55@news.duke.edu> <4lgq8c$ffc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <4ln124$3jb@sidhe.memra.com> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:55:16 GMT Lines: 15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22485 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:865 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3555 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3412 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18284 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47327 In article <4ln124$3jb@sidhe.memra.com>, Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote: > >You type in "setup" and receive a list of applications marked INSTALLED >or AVAILABLE. You arrow up and donw the list, press SPACEBAR or ENTER >(they do the same thing) and a dialog pops up asking if you want to >install/deinstall this application. Answer Y or N and it happens, then >back to the list. > When you run sysinstall on FreeBSD, that appears to be how it works!!! Over last weekend it saved me alot of time. (I was very pleasantly suprised, I don't look at the install stuff very often.) John