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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Manuals for FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 4 Jan 1995 00:49:27 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <3ea5v4$fl0@mackeysparc.hinet.net>,
Chester H. Lin <chester@mackeysparc.hinet.net> wrote:
>Is there any manual for FreeBSD 2.0? I am thinking about O'Reilly
>& Associates' BSD series (about 5 or 6 volumes), it this series
>suitable for FreeBSD 2.0?

Yes, very much so.  The base code used in FreeBSD 2.0 was 4.4lite, which
is a small subset of 4.4 which the O'Reilly manuals document well.

(Though I admit the kernel information is a bit sparse)

Nate
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