How do I find information about variants?

[robert delius royar]

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 (01:16 -0500 UTC) Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Apr 23, 2007, at 19:34, Markus Weimer wrote:
>
>> And the original question remains: How would I have found out about
>> this without bothering the mailing list?
>
> If the name of the variant does not explain its purpose, you can read the 
> source code of the portfile ("port edit foo"). If that doesn't help, you can 
> ask the port's maintainer.

The command
% port cat foo | ${PAGER}
is a bit lighter in w[a|e][i|gh]t

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Dr. Robert Delius Royar                   Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University                             Morehead, Kentucky