On Thursday 03 October 2002 02:49 am, Palmer, Hilary wrote: > some of the good old faithful terminal utilities and documentation are > not there anymore. A utility such as C-Kermit has no replacement for it, > that I have found, included in the distro.
Fetch the SRPMs for 8.2, install, cd /usr/src/RPM/SPECS, and finally do an `rpm -bb rpmname.spec' for each one. Unless you're very unlucky, your beloveds will be returned to you for very little effort. If you send a copy of the fruits of your labours to Texstar or Ranger, I'm sure they'll stick them up on their FTP site for the rest of the world to play with. > I do understand that you are trying to make it "user-friendly" and not as > confusing to a newbie, but don't strip items out that have been shipped > with the distro for years. The Mandrake people had a closer look at the licences and discovered that some weren't as Free as a first reading might suggest. Since the Download Edition, at least, has to be Free for various (including legal) reasons, the offenders had to go. Cheers; Leon
