At 3:09 PM -0600 11/5/97, Bill Studenmund wrote:

(A snipped quote from a message I wrote. It included a question about
FreeBSD ports. I asked if the FreeBSD port mechinism was ported to
NetBSD.)

>It went in within the last month. You can SUP it, but you do need to
>be running 1.3.

So I upgraded to 1.3 Alpha. I then ran make on the Makefile for a FreeBSD
port, namely for mgetty. It worked flawlessly, including ftping the source
automatically.

This is cool. All the FreeBSD ports are now at our disposal. There are 1126
ports available.


Eric Damien Berna
eric@thiel.com