I have what may seem like an odd question. I have a new FreeBSD 4.9 system that I want 
to install OpenOffice and some other stuff on. Most of the stuff left to install is 
pretty big and thus will be hard to download via ports over my dial-up connection 
(yes, I use dial-up). I know it's possible to download tarballs and drop them into the 
ports tree somewhere so you don't have to do the download. I'm wondering how easy this 
is, though. By that I mean, if I wanted to say install Tomcat, Java, OpenOffice, etc. 
in this manner how would I know which package to download? And from where? I'd like to 
download these at work, burn them on a CD and take them home. However, since I'm not 
in front of my machine I don't know where ports will be looking for these files. 
Anyone know?

Preston

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