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From: David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: compiling tin-1.22
Date: 24 Oct 1996 22:31:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote:
: Ollivier Robert (Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr) wrote:
: : 
: : Fairly classical problem with old programs. Just wipe the line or use the
: : FreeBSD ports in /usr/ports/news/tin. It has been upgraded to use new
: : unsupported beta versions.
:
: Note that the latest (961020) version of the Unofficial Beta at
: akk.uni-karlsruhe.de has certain fixes for FreeBSD porting at the top of the
: CHANGES file accompanying.

Yes, two of us have sent in several patches so that it actually compiles
just fine out of the box.  There are no longer any FreeBSD specific
patches in the port.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)