Subject: Re: i386 NetBSD port of tcpdump ?
To: None <devtrix@netcom.com>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/26/1996 01:02:48
>From: devtrix@netcom.com (Matthew B. Wood)
>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I'm no C whiz by any means, and I'm wondering if anyone has ported the
>popular 'tcpdump' source to NetBSD.  It does support 386-bsd, but even
>tweaking the Makefile and header files wasn't good enough, at least the way
>I did them.  :)

What's wrong with /usr/src/usr.sbin/tcpdump?

>On that note, is there any common place to share porting data, even diffs, 
>of software for us NetBSD folk?  Every time I go out looking for a new 
>piece of software, I find most of it knowing about NetBSD at all.

Look under <URL:ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages>.  BTW, is
anyone maintaining this area?  It seems like almost everything is at
least 6 months old....  I could generate updated packages for Emacs
and ispell, but would anyone use them?

>  "Hello, Hello Kitty", said Tuxedo Sam. 
>  A voice answered back, louder than a thousand rock concerts, with words
>which seemed to stretch from pole to pole, from the lowest hell to the
>highest heaven: "I AM HELLO KITTY, DESTROYER OF WORLDS!" 

:-)
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