El día Friday, June 03, 2016 a las 08:13:00PM +1000, Erik Christiansen escribió:
> > $ fgrep -A1 MASTER_SITES ports-r414411/*/metamail/Makefile > > MASTER_SITES= http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/mail/metamail/ \ > > ftp://ftp.research.telcordia.com/pub/nsb/ > > > > I don't know if this would compile straight forward on your system. > > A previous build of the 2.7 version, some years ago, worked fine, but > the link I had kept: http://kb.iu.edu/data/data/aibt.html is now a 404, > which inclines me to go with Debian's decision to obsolete the package > on the basis that it isn't maintained. (Better to invest in remembering > replacement utilities with a greater future availability, I think.) In FreeBSD the port is still actively maintained. > > Erik > (who remembers when uuencode was the go-to decoding utility.) Matthias who still uses from time to time uuencode/uudecode to move a binary to a customer site when I only have terminal access to this system (gzip the file, uuencode it, cut&paste into a cat or vi command at remote site, uudecode it) -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ g...@unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045 "Die Verkaufsschlager des Buchmarkts geben Auskunft über den Zustand einer Gesellschaft bzw. sind, was diese Zeiten angeht, Gradmesser fortschreitenden Schwachsinns. ..." (jW 19.05.2016)
