> where would one retrieve gcc?  it wasnt in the hpcsh snapshot 
> directory, and I am at a loss how to compile it if it doesnt exist.

It's on the ftp.netbsd.org somewhere under /arch. Keep searching, you'll
eventually find it.

It's not that I don't want to help, I just can't remember where I found it.
At some point in time all this will be moot when files start appearing in
the snapshot directory.


Lars