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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 4 Apr 1994 17:16:35 +0200
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hpeyerl@sidney (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>Rob Newberry (rob-n@clark.net) wrote:
>: It's not just the FAQ's, either. The man pages are screwy. I wanted
>: to add some users. In linux, "adduser" does the trick. So I do a
>: "man adduser", and it says that this is a command for adding new users,
>Wrong. It says (and I quote:)
>----
>ADDUSER(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual ADDUSER(8)
>NAME
> adduser - procedure for adding new users
>----
>"procedure"... Not "command". And reading further (yes; I know it's
Wrong. From the man page:
HISTORY
The adduser command appeared in 3.0BSD.
^^^^^^^
This ought to be a command, and i my memory serves me well, some command
to do this will be in FreeBSD-1.1.
(Why the hell did it ever dissapear? If it appeared in 3BSD, it cannot
be encumbered by the USL.)
--
cheers, J"org work: joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
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