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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version?
Date: 14 Sep 1994 17:36:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <Cw4Hy3.Iw@agora.rdrop.com>,
Tim Gardner <timg@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
>I have the Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD Release 1.1
>from May 1994. How do I tell what the minor version
>is, e.g., 1.1.5.1 ? There seems to be significant

You have plain old 1.1 - 1.1.5.1 was not released on CDROM.

You can also always tell what version you're running by
typing "uname".

>differences in serial handling. For example, tty01 vs.
>cua01. Is there a discussion of that somewhere? No 
>mention in the FAQ's.

Look in /etc/rc.serial on 1.1.5.1.

					Jordan