OK, after playing with the pkgsrc stuff a bit, I came across the sup
command.  When I first tried to execute it, I got an error saying something
about "can't find my host 'xyz'" (where xyz is my machine name).  I twiddled
my /etc/hosts and got past that one.  Now, it seems to run, but after a
couple of hours it reports that it has timed out awaiting network input
while reading the denied files list from the server.  I'm just trying to
update pkgsrc using the system coll.list file (which I copied from
/usr/share/examples/supfiles) from sup.netbsd.org.  Would it help to try a
different server (even though they're farther away)?

Thanks!
-- Tracy Nelson