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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7784 ; Tue, 26 Jan 93 07:00:18 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: Where can I pick up the FAQ from? Message-ID: <1993Jan24.223827.28290@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT) References: <CHETAL.93Jan11143657@poundcake.is.morgan.com> <1993Jan12.014439.16525@netcom.com> <1993Jan23.232356.11328@delos.stgt.sub.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 22:38:27 GMT Lines: 50 In article <1993Jan23.232356.11328@delos.stgt.sub.org> migieger@delos.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) writes: >Hi, > >>You might find the FAQ and BUGLIST (really an FAQ) on agate: >>anon ftp agate.berkeley.edu; ~/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/{*FAQ,*BUGLIST} > >I wonder what could be the reason to keep the FAQ and the BUGLIST >(and BTW, the patch-kit) "hidden" on agate.berkeley.edu; this >forces many people without access to ftp-connections asking the >same questions again and again... > >Any hints? 1) It's out of date (I know, I wrote it; it's definitely out of date since the first patchkit release). 2) It's going to be more out of date with the 0.2 patchkit release. 3) It's going to be hopelessly out of date for the 0.2 386BSD release, and will probably have to be restarted. 4) It's too large to fit through the 20k restrictors on non-network uucp connections for thing like uucp-based netnews -- thus it would never make it unless split up (something I'm doing as part of reorganizing it, but I'm having a hard time keeping up with the changes well enough to do a release). 5) It's mirrored a lot of places, including to those with FTP mail servers (like ftp.uu.net and wuarchive.wust.edu)... so it's not really "hidden" anyway. 6) The Jolitz's didn't produce the FAQ, BUGLIST, or patchkit; therefore they are unofficial; they go under the "unofficial" directory in the 386BSD heirarchy. 7) Finally, you may have noticed that the 0.1 release of 386BSD requires access to a mirrored source tree to get anyway; even if done by mail archive server, this gives you access to the "unofficial" portion of the heirarchy. I don't know what the position on mail-servers is on ref or agate, but I *know* I can't run one here (WSU) or at work (Novell) to spend all day sending FAQ's out. Sorry. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu terry_lambert@novell.com --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial -------------------------------------------------------------------------------