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From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: files in /usr/ports/distfiles
Date: 27 Jan 1996 16:17:46 +0100
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In article <4e221d$sc2@kudu.ru.ac.za> ccam@kudu.ru.ac.za (Andile Mbatyoti) writes:
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: I am looking for contents of the directory /usr/ports/distfiles as this
: directory does not exit in my system.
Empty initially. It will fill up when you install ports, because in
the course of installing a port, the original file ("distfile") will
be fetched with AnonFTP and saved to /usr/ports/distfiles.
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