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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports description file
Date: 16 Jun 1995 20:13:44 +0200
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Eric Chet <echet@coil.com> wrote:

>     Every month somebody posts a document with descriptions of all the 
>FreeBSD packages available at ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ports.
>I looked around at ftp.freebsd.org but could not find it.  Could 
>somebody please email it to me?

It's in the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce group.  You can also have a
look at the INDEX file, it's not as expressive, but it's maintained
automatically.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)