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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Lynx 2.5?
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 03:15:05 GMT

James Raynard (james@jraynard.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <DrEyCD.7K1@news2.new-york.net>, Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote:
: >
: >Early this month,Lynx 2.5 was released,and after some bug encounters I
: >would like to upgrade my Lynx installation.(The CHANGES file lists 45 screens
: >full of changes since 9/95!)
: >
: >Just what is necessary...does there need to be a whole new port?A downloading
: >of the whole Ports Collection to get it?Or just a fresh patch and a download
: >into /usr/ports/distfiles and use of the Makefile?
: 
: If the port's been upgraded, you can just download the
: .../ports/net/lynx bit of the ports tree and get the Makefile to sort
: the rest out. If it hasn't, perhaps a polite note to the maintainer
: might be in order.

ports/www/lynx,actually,but my efforts so far have not worked!!