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From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Packages, Help!
Date: 26 Apr 1997 21:53:21 GMT
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un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Philipp Mergenthaler):
> The reason is probably that DOS cuts name to its 8+3 character format, [...]
> Solution: copy the file from the dos partition to e.g. /tmp, rename it to
> its original name, and then run pkg_add.

Renaming isn't really neccessary at all if you have to resort to
manually running pkg_add anyway (because you can't access the
package from within the sysinstall menu).

Greetings,
				Ripley
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