Since I've got myself a little network now, can I somehow say in /etc/mk.conf 
files of any little, old, slow machines that they must look for DISTDIR in 
/usr/pkgsrc_distfiles on the big, new, fast machine via Ethernet?

So, like, where it now says...

DISTDIR=/usr/pkgsrc_distfiles

...on the little, old, slow machines on NetBSD much the same as I can say in 
*.bat files on WinNT. Below is an example for WinNT, where CAVE_OF_WONDERS is 
just a variable name I made up and \\ALPHA\c\blah\blah\ points to the 
directory C:\blah\blah on the WinNT machine I have chosen to call ALPHA...

C> call set CAVE_OF_WONDERS=\\ALPHA\c\blah\blah\

...then later in the *.bat file I could call up file README.TXT from machine 
ALPHA and display it in notpad on machine CHARLIE like so (when put into a 
*.bat file which is run on CHARLIE)...

C> notepad %CAVE_OF_WONDERS%README.TXT

Knowing how to embed a redirect like that in /etc/mk.conf on NetBSD (surely 
one can) will save me an all-day ftp.

Thanks,

Gan Starling