trim the DESCR's to something reasonable at Satoshi's request.

svn path=/head/; revision=4011

astro/xephem/pkg-descr

@@ -11,16 +11,10 @@ systems. It ...
     and Earth; Mars' and Jupiter's central meridian longitude; Saturn's rings;
     and Jupiter's Great Red Spot
 
-    supports user-defined objects;
-
-    comes with sample databases of over 20,000 objects in the release kit;
-
-    can access the Hubble Guide Star Catalog from CD-ROM using gscdbd;
-
   Elwood Downey
   ecdowney@noao.edu
   http://iraf.noao.edu/~ecdowney
   August 1995
 
-eric.
+--
 erich@FreeBSD.org

devel/gcc-6811/pkg-descr

@@ -8,30 +8,15 @@ From the original README...
     is manufactured by Coactive Aesthetics. It was hosted on a NeXT system.
     However, there is no assumptions and/or hardcode values within the
     compiler which would prevent the compiler from working on any 6811 board
-    or on any host system. A port to another board would require an updated
+    or on any host system.
-    crt0.s file which defines where the "pseudo" registers live in the memory
-    map and where the startup code lives. A sample crt0.s file has been
-    included as part of this release.
-
-    The rest of this readme file has some technical notes relating to the
-    port, and installation procedures that can be used in installing the
-    compiler.
 
     Any questions, bug reports, or porting comments/questions should be sent
     to gcc@coactive.com.
 
     Thanks,
-
     Otto
 
-    --
-    Otto Lind                  Coactive Aesthetics
-    otto@coactive.com          P.O. Box 425967, San Francisco, CA 94142
-    netcom!coactive!otto       voice:(415)626-5152    fax:(415)626-6320
-
 You'll probably have to edit ${PREFIX}/lib/gcc-lib/m6811-local/2.6.3/crt0.s
 to suit your hardware.
-
 --
-eric
+erich@freebsd.org
-erich@rrnet.com

devel/m6811-gcc/pkg-descr

@@ -8,30 +8,15 @@ From the original README...
     is manufactured by Coactive Aesthetics. It was hosted on a NeXT system.
     However, there is no assumptions and/or hardcode values within the
     compiler which would prevent the compiler from working on any 6811 board
-    or on any host system. A port to another board would require an updated
+    or on any host system.
-    crt0.s file which defines where the "pseudo" registers live in the memory
-    map and where the startup code lives. A sample crt0.s file has been
-    included as part of this release.
-
-    The rest of this readme file has some technical notes relating to the
-    port, and installation procedures that can be used in installing the
-    compiler.
 
     Any questions, bug reports, or porting comments/questions should be sent
     to gcc@coactive.com.
 
     Thanks,
-
     Otto
 
-    --
-    Otto Lind                  Coactive Aesthetics
-    otto@coactive.com          P.O. Box 425967, San Francisco, CA 94142
-    netcom!coactive!otto       voice:(415)626-5152    fax:(415)626-6320
-
 You'll probably have to edit ${PREFIX}/lib/gcc-lib/m6811-local/2.6.3/crt0.s
 to suit your hardware.
-
 --
-eric
+erich@freebsd.org
-erich@rrnet.com

lang/eiffel/pkg-descr

@@ -8,18 +8,8 @@ from introduction/about.txt:
   The Language" (Prentice Hall, 1992). Many other books are available on the
   language and the method. The language is non-proprietary. 
 
-  The aim of Eiffel is to improve the quality of software systems and the
-  productivity of the development process. It particularly promotes the
-  production of software that has the following qualities: reliability
-  (absence of bugs) extendibility (ease of change) reusability (reliance of
-  libraries of packaged components) and portability (adaptability on many
-  platforms with full source compatibility). Eiffel also makes it possible
-  to produce compilers, such as ISE's, which generate extremely efficient
-  code. 
-
 More docs are in ``${PREFIX}/eiffel/doc'' and ``${PREFIX}/eiffel/introduction''
 Some examples are in ``${PREFIX}/eiffel/examples''.
 
-eric.
 --
-erich@rrnet.com
+erich@freebsd.org

math/xlispstat/pkg-descr

@@ -2,21 +2,10 @@ This is XLISP-STAT 3.44 Release 3 for generic bsd systems (with simple
 tektronix graphics from the gnuplot system), or X11.
 
 XLISP-STAT is a statistical environment based on a dialect of the Lisp
-language called XLISP. Originally developed for the Apple Macintosh,
+language called XLISP.  To facilitate statistical computations, standard Lisp
-XLISP-STAT is now also available for UNIX workstations using the X11
+functions for addition, logarithms, etc., have been modified to operate on
-window system and for Microsoft Windows. To facilitate statistical
+lists and arrays of numbers, and a number of basic statistical functions have
-computations, standard Lisp functions for addition, logarithms, etc.,
+been added.
-have been modified to operate on lists and arrays of numbers, and a
-number of basic statistical functions have been added.  Many of these
-functions have been written in Lisp, and additional functions can be
-added easily by a user.  Several basic forms of plots, including
-histograms, scatterplots, rotatable plots and scatterplot matrices are
-provided.  These plots support various forms of interactive
-highlighting operations and can be linked so points highlighted in one
-plot will be highlighted in all linked plots. Interactions with the
-plots are controlled by the mouse, menus and dialog boxes. An
-object-oriented programming system is used to allow menus, dialogs,
-and the response to mouse actions to be customized.
 
 Updates to this system will be posted periodically in the anonymous
 ftp directory of umnstat.stat.umn.edu (128.101.51.1).
@@ -28,10 +17,5 @@ LaTeX files in xlispstat.doc.tar.Z at the ftp address above.
 
 For further information contact
 
-                Luke Tierney
-                School of Statistics
-                University of Minnesota
-                Minneapolis, Mn. 55455
-
                 luke@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
 

shells/rc/pkg-descr

@@ -1,34 +1,22 @@
+Excerpts from the README:
+
   This is release 1.5 of rc.
 
-Read COPYRIGHT for copying information. All files are
+  A unix version of the Plan-9 Shell.
 
-Copyright 1991, Byron Rakitzis.
+  FEEPING CREATURISM
+
+  See the end of the man page, under "INCOMPATABILITIES" for (known?)
+  differences from the "real" rc. Most of these changes were necessary
+  to get rc to work in a reasonable fashion on a real (i.e., commercial,
+  non-Labs) UNIX system; a few were changes motivated by concern
+  about some inadequacies in the original design.
 
   CREDITS
 
-This shell was written by me, Byron Rakitzis, but kudos go to Paul
+  This shell was written by Byron Rakitzis, but kudos go to Paul
   Haahr for letting me know what a shell should do and for contributing
   certain bits and pieces to rc (notably the limits code, print.c,
-most of which.c and the backquote redirection code), and to Hugh
+  most of which.c and the backquote redirection code).
-Redelmeier for running rc through his fussy ANSI compiler and
-thereby provoking interesting discussions about portability, and
-also for providing many valuable suggestions for improving rc's
-code in general. Finally, many thanks go to David Sanderson, for
-reworking the man page to format well with troff, and for providing
-many suggestions both for rc and its man page.
 
-Thanks to Boyd Roberts for the original history.c, and to Hugh
+eric.
-again for re-working parts of that code.
-
-Of course, without Tom Duff's design of the original rc, I could
-not have written this shell (though I probably would have written
-*a* shell). Almost of all of the features, with minor exceptions,
-have been implemented as described in the Unix v10 manuals. Hats
-off to td for designing a C-like, minimal but very useful shell.
-
-Tom Duff has kindly given permission for the paper he wrote for
-UKUUG to be distributed with this version of rc (called "plan9.ps"
-in the same ftp directory as the shell). Please read this paper
-bearing in mind that it describes a program that was written at
-AT&T and that the version of rc presented here differs in some
-respects.

x11-fonts/Xg/pkg-descr

@@ -3,13 +3,7 @@ Unicode fonts
 
 The new libXg distribution supports Unicode.  Sam and 9term built using
 the new UTF libXg will allow one to enter and edit files containing
-Unicode characters encoded using UTF-2 (UTF-FSS).  The software
+Unicode characters encoded using UTF-2 (UTF-FSS).
-takes care of all this encoding.  Sam may be used to enter the files
-and when displayed in a suitable 9term window will be seen in all
-their Unicode glory.  The font bundle is an integral part of this.
-It contains bdf files of fonts which are used to span various ranges
-of the Unicode space.
-
 To use them:
 
 o	convert the bdf files to whatever format is appropriate for
@@ -22,19 +16,3 @@ o	make sure libXg knows about the fontfile you wish to use by
 	be something like /lib/font/Xg/matty/unicode.9.font or by
 	specifying an appropriate -p9font argument to libXg programs.
 
-I am currently using these headers on outgoing Unicode mail, however
-I do not vouch for their correctness.  They do provide a bit of clue
-as to what is going on 'though.
-
-	Mime-Version: 1.0
-	Content-Type: text/plain; charset=X-utf-2
-	Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
-I am working on a program to convert UTF-2 streams into reasonable
-ascii aproximations where possible.
-
-If you create any more fonts or add to the existing fonts, please
-drop me a line so I can add them to the distribution and my collection.
-
-					Matty Farrow
-					matty@cs.su.oz.au