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Re: new boot floppies



>   Does this imply that dftp (or the functionality thereof) has been
>   merged into dselect?  That would be good.

No.  'dpkg-ftp' is a method for dselect to read from an FTP site in much
the same way that it would read from an NFS mount or CD-ROM.

This seems only fair since 'dftp' has added the ability to run from NFS
mount and CD-ROM.  :-)  [ check out the "--pkgpath" option ]

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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