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From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton)
Subject: What is meant by `port' (Was Re: Modem program for FreeBSD
  needed)
In-Reply-To: obrien@nob.ucdavis.edu's message of 2 Feb 1996 11:16:53 GMT
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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 04:33:37 GMT

Our friend, obrien@nob.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien), wrote:

> kurt@vianet.on.ca wrote:
> : 
> : Linux experience tells me there must be a FreeBSD equivalent to 'MiniCom' 
> : which comes with Linux slackware... 
> 
> There is a port of the latest Minicom (version 1.74) as
> ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/minicom*1.74*
  
  I am not sure how to take this statement.  minicom is not that
exciting a compile.  In fact, you can do a make install.  (i got it off
of sunsite!)

What do people mean by port when they use it?  This seems to be some
strange FreeBSD thing that I do not understand...

Soren