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authorjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1996-10-13 03:51:00 +0800
committerjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1996-10-13 03:51:00 +0800
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Mention the WEB based ports interface and clarify some of the text.
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-This is the FreeBSD Ports Collection. Please refer to the FreeBSD
-Handbook on what to do with them.
+This is the FreeBSD Ports Collection. For an easy to use
+WEB-based interface to it, please see:
-The FreeBSD Handbook is available from
+ http://www.freebsd.org/ports
- file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html
+For general information on the ports collection, please see the
+FreeBSD Handbook which is available from:
-(that's the version on your machine) and
+ file://localhost/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html
- http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html
+(if you installed the doc distribution on your machine)
-for the latest version from FreeBSD-current.
+Or:
+
+ http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html
+
+for the latest official version from FreeBSD-current.
The section "The Ports Collection" will tell you how to use the
-ports/packages and "Porting Applications" describes how you can
-contribute to the ports collection.
+ports and packages and the "Porting Applications" section
+describes how one can contribute to the ports collection.