Great, thanks. Worked like a charm. Went and got the Packages files, ran DSELECT and had 55M of files to get!!! Whoops! I had to take them out again to get any sense back into DSELECT.
Would you expect this to happen or did I do something wrong?? Thanks for your help. Ian W On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 09:15:31PM +0500, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote: > Can you use dselect and the unstable packages vis FTP. If so how? Yes. Use an FTP site that carries unstable, and configure dpkg-ftp (through "[A]ccess") to use the directories "dists/unstable/main", "dists/unstable/contrib" and "dists/unstable/non-free". HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
