Newbie Question ... getting sources.

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 00:43 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> P.S.  I just built and installed the FreeBSD port of "apt", so guess I
> can now use that to get "apt" thingies down to my FreeBSD box.  But the
> question remains... What would I do with one, even if I got one?  I have
> no idea how to unpack one of those things to get at the goodies inside.

MC (midnight commander) is one peach of a pgm for peering into packages.
You may want to give it a whirl. Yes, it's good ole command line...
reminiscent of old DOS utils. Ric


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