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From: ahmed@oea.xs4all.nl (Ahmed Naas)
Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's 386BSD Reference CD-ROM: Fraud?
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.apps
References: <D04Lwp.73z@lemis.de>
Organization: The Humble Abode
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 16:59:41 GMT
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Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.de) wrote:

: After reading a bit between the lines, I have come to the following
: conclusion:

:     The documentation on the CD is of sufficient interest to Dr. Dobbs
:     that they don't want it printed in any form.  In order to prevent
:     this, they have embedded it in a toy (MS Windows), which is not
:     able to print them.

You certainly can print help files under MS Windows.

Please tell us about the OS itself. Is it stable? Can you really
boot from the CDROM?

-- 
The above is a result of random neuron activity in the writer's brain.
Ahmed M. Naas     				   ahmed@oea.xs4all.nl
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