At 2:46 PM -0800 2/24/01, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Chris Tucker wrote:
>
>> THIS TIME, however, I decided to try the precombiled binary thang. I went
>> to the precompiled binary directly of the application "dt" and downloaded
>> it, gunzipped and untarred it, and it WORKED with much less mucking about
>> with the downloading and compiling that I had to put up with before (this
>> is especially annoying when you're using a 16mhz cpu!)

Just a quick question.  did you untar and gunzip it, or did you pkg_add it?

The binary packages should be added to the system using the pkg_add command.
This way:
a) you have a record of it in the registry,
b) the system can notify you if this package depends on other packages
c) packages upon which this package depends get installed automatically
d) and it can be easily removed with the pkg_delete command later on if you
wish to upgrade it.