[rescue] q concerning freeware.sgi.com

[Rob Fielding]

>    Rob> indeed there's no real way around only having part of
>    Rob> freeware. Even if you don't use it all you save yourself alot
>    Rob> of time IMO just grabbing the lot and maintaining your own
>    Rob> mirror of the archive. I use ncftp straight into
>
>Wasn't someone working on a BSD-style ports system for IRIX ?
>
No!

Ok - that was a joke - can you elaborate ?