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From: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: [FreeBSD] How about adding software in a list ?
Date: 17 Feb 1994 15:34:40 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Hi !
Yesterday I asked someone of the "core team" (Wow, I'm proud of this ! :-)) if
you can add different programs from the Linux community or any other source to
your package directory. He told me, that the package directory is nearly full
and that you don't want to give out extra binaries from every package so people
have to find and compile theirselves what they need. I agree to this position.
But it's very annoying if you try and try and everytime you tried too much
errors came up during compile so you have to change code etc. But sometimes you
find tools which run almost at their best behaviour so you don't have to bother
about compiling and errors. So I will suggest something:

Let's make a list of programs which can compile without problems on FreeBSD and
also put in the list the place where you found the source. So you won't have to
run for programs and try to compile/install/use them. And we save lots of
space.
I would begin this new tradition with minicom, a nice communication utility
which looks like telix from the MSDOS side and it really runs fine and much
better than kermit:

ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de:/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/minicom-14b.tar.gz

I think you also can find it on different other Linux mirrors.

Bye,
	Udo




























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