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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!IN-Berlin.DE!fub!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing Packages, Help! Date: 26 Apr 1997 21:53:21 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.2.1), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 16 Message-ID: <slrn5m4uah.aat.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970424121819.16241A-100000@garcia.efn.org> <5jql10$laq$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39829 un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Philipp Mergenthaler): > The reason is probably that DOS cuts name to its 8+3 character format, [...] > Solution: copy the file from the dos partition to e.g. /tmp, rename it to > its original name, and then run pkg_add. Renaming isn't really neccessary at all if you have to resort to manually running pkg_add anyway (because you can't access the package from within the sysinstall menu). Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)