In article <XFMail.980323051924.root@garbled.net> you write:
> no clue that it is available.  Another useful tool.. btw.. might be a pkg_add
> that grabs the precompiled tar file via ftp..  but.. thats a different issue.

"It's in there!(tm)"

pkg_add can already do that. It's even documented in the man page,
though it doesn't really leap out at you.

Of course, you still have to know that the package you want exists and
what the URL for it is.