> 
> At 12:02 PM 11/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >	ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/hfs/hfsutils.tar.gz
> >
> >There were some changes to the Makefile that were necessary to get it
> >to work under NetBSD.  I've made up a package for it that uses the new
> >pkg subsystem in 1.3, so I can send that to you if you'd like.

Such a package would be greatly appreciated!

> What are packages? Is it a type of install system or some sort of kernel
> modules??

An install system based on the FreeBSD ports system. You have /usr/pkgsrc
which is a tree with patches and install instructions so you can
just cd to an area, type make, and the system will ftp the source, patch
it, then compile it.

Take care,

Bill