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authorNiklas Hallqvist <niklas@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-04-06 07:52:47 +0000
committerNiklas Hallqvist <niklas@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-04-06 07:52:47 +0000
commit7fbb059ed91627d17cec871a170bdc2504e391a8 (patch)
tree9a044834399d80a582d3e4dc4ad457182818f909 /distrib/notes/packages
parent8f7ffcd27a1cabbee88c8ae4d1deed5f3625f98b (diff)
grammar, spelling, and some extra content
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diff --git a/distrib/notes/packages b/distrib/notes/packages
index f38936e2188..816cbc4d639 100644
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+++ b/distrib/notes/packages
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-As complete as your OpenBSD system you still may want to add any of
-several excellent third party software application. There are several
+As complete as your OpenBSD system is you still may want to add any of
+several excellent third party software applications. There are several
ways to do this. You can
-1) Obtaining the source code and building the application based
+1) Obtain the source code and building the application based
upon whatever installation procedures are provided with the
application.
@@ -28,11 +28,15 @@ Installing applications from the the CD-ROM package collection:
for various hardware architectures. The applications
and supported architectures are:
- i386 sparc m68k alpha mips
- emacs-20.2 yes yes yes yes no
- bash-2.01.1 yes yes yes yes no
- tcsh-6.07.02 yes yes yes yes no
- pine-3.96 yes yes yes yes no
+ i386 sparc amiga m68k alpha mips
+ emacs-20.2 yes yes no yes yes no
+ bash-2.01.1 yes yes no yes yes no
+ tcsh-6.07.02 yes yes no yes yes no
+ pine-3.96 yes yes no yes yes no
+
+ (the amiga is treated specially due to its 8k hardware pagesize
+ aka NBPG, it's very well possible amiga will run the other m68k
+ arch's binaries, but we make no guarantees at this point).
To install one or more of these packages you must
1) become the superuser (root)
@@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ Installing applications from the ftp.openbsd.org package collection:
Password: <enter your root password>
# pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/emacs-20.2.tgz
- Note: there are both USA and INTERNATIONAL versoins of ssh and
+ Note: there are both USA and INTERNATIONAL versions of ssh and
pgp on the ftp server. Be sure to grab the correct version.
The USA versions, ssh-usa-1.2.22.tgz and pgp-usa-2.6.3.tgz, use
RSAREF, a legal requirement for use within the United States.
@@ -100,9 +104,9 @@ Installing other applications:
you're pretty much on your own. The first thing to do is ask
ports@openbsd.org if anyone is working on a port -- there may
be one in progress. If no luck there you may try the FreeBSD
- ports collection. If you are on an i386 based machine it is
- quite possible that the FreeBSD port, if one exists, will work
- for you,
+ ports or NetBSD package collection. If you are on an i386 based
+ machine it is quite possible that the FreeBSD port, if one exists,
+ will work for you.
If you can't find an existing port try to make your own and
feed it back to OpenBSD. That's how our ports collection grows.