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to: Bob Jones
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2003-07-02 19:31:12
subject: arc521e

Hello Bob.

30 Jun 03 16:37, you wrote to me:

 BJ>> I need to track down a number of the archive packages...  I have
 BJ>> the info zip stuff properly installed, but still need most of the
 BJ>> others. There should be a way of forcing (or moding) the info zip
 BJ>> code to produce the very old format that is the old ARC standard
 BJ>> that fidonet "supports".....  But, I'll probably just
settle with
 BJ>> running the MN flag and letting folks trip over that one....
 BJ>> ......  Yes, I'll find the un-arc program when I finally
 BJ>> get down to that issue.....

 RT>> You can find most of them at www.debian.org, do a
 RT>> search for the packages,
 RT>> tho some you will have to compile from souce or get tarball's
 RT>> for. If you want/care about apt-get knowing about them, use alien
 RT>> to make you *.deb packages and then install those.

 BJ> I'm already using a GUI (under GNOME) to access and install the debian
 BJ> apt packages.....  So, those likely to be listed at www.debian.org I
 BJ> should have already found.  A few are still missing, or I haven't hit
 BJ> the correct package names yet.....  What I'm probably not seeing is
 BJ> third party apt packages.

Why I said to try debian.org, is that I have a 7 CD set here Debian 3.0r0 and 
some are not on the CD's, but are on the debian site.

 BJ> But, I have enough to run with for testing at the moment....

Good ...

 BJ> Take care.....

I try, thanks,

Enjoy!

Russell

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