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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Ports Collection growth...
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I note that the tar.gz file of the Ports Collection(now 739 ports!)
is now over *3* megabytes...the Web page still says it's "about 2"!

(Good to see the numbers increase).