On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:48:39 -0700 (PDT),
Ron Thompson <wax66@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I've got pine, and it works great, and I'm progressing greatly on learning
> UN*X stuff and NetBSD stuff, but I'm not sure what program supports pop
> mail.

IIRC, pine talks POP on its own?  Check the man pages for how to
configure it to fetch mail from your POP server.

> I was told popclient might work, so I installed that, but since
> it's for FreeBSD, it didn't work (it said it was the wrong platform).

FreeBSD runs only on i386.  We are on m68k.  Different CPUs often use
different instruction sets, so a program for one CPU may not be
directly executed by another CPU.  That's why the popclient FreeBSD
*BINARY* doesn't work on NetBSD/mac68k! (NetBSD/i386 *does* run
FreeBSD binaries).

The right place you should look into for precompiled binaries is
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.3/m68k/.  Programs are
categorized in 30 or so subdirectories by jenre.  For mail agents, you
should check "mail" subdirectory, for instance.  Unfortunately, it
doesn't carry popclient at the moment, though...

For details on the package system itself, try "man pkg_info".

Hope this helps,

Ken