thanks for the report
some bitrot may have set in
I'll check the instruction sequence on our freebsd machine tomorrow

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:21:03 -0700 Joe Kelsey wrote:
> I decided to try installing the entire ast package on FreeBSD instead of 
> just ksh.  So, I took the directions in the ope/ast page on the web site 
> and tried to follow them.

> The package commands seem to work fine for downloading the packages, but 
> after downloading the packages the package command tries to use the 
> "ratz" command, presumable to unpack the tgz packages and it simply 
> fails.  Did the package source on the web site change recently so that 
> it is suddenly trying to use commands which do not exist on FreeBSD?

> I remember doing this operation on an Ubuntu Linux system in the past 
> and not having any problems, but now on my home FreeBSD system it 
> consistently fails on the "ratz" step.

> My eventual goal is to create a port which dows all the work involved, 
> so maybe the whole ratz thing is superfluous since the port system just 
> unpacks the tgz files with its own commands and doesn't rely on ratz.  I 
> guess I just disn't realize that the package command relies on ratz, 
> whic presumably exists on Linux.  Yet another Linux incompatability...

> /Joe

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