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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 address@concealed wrote:

> can anybody tell me what a "links" program and a "ncftpget" program
> is? While processing "make" (preparing the installation in linux) in
> order to install Sympa, I am told that they are not found. I don?t
> have any idea, what they are and where to get them. Thanks for your
> help,

lynx is a text-mode web browser
ncftp is a smarter ftp program

I'm guessing that part of the sympa make process uses one or both of them
to download constituent pieces.

You can get lynx from www.lynx.org and ncftp from www.ncftp.com


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