> i did:
> pork% tar --create --file lyx-0.10.7.tar --absolute-paths 
> /usr/local/man/man1/lyx.1 /usr/local/lib/lyx/ /usr/local/bin/lyx
> look good? if it does, ill upload to ftp.netbsd.com or whereever people 
> think this should be.

I don't know if that's how to use tar, but yes, those are the correct 
directories.

one more thing--didn't you have to build xpm?  if so, that needs to be 
available; xforms is already available as a tar.

rick