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From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: 13 May 1995 15:23:58 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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In-reply-to: tim@maths.tcd.ie's message of 13 May 1995 13:19:35 +0100

In article <3p284n$l6s@bell.maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:

   Also, at least where I was looking, there seemed a complete lack
   of documentation.
   I've found the Linux Guides (particularly Installation and Getting Started)
   extremely useful; are there corresponding things for FreeBSD ?

/anonymous@ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD-current/src/share/doc:
  total 18
  drwxrwxr-x    8 1000          512 May 13 10:36 .
  drwxrwxr-x   15 1000          512 Dec 17  1993 ..
  drwxrwxr-x    2 1000          512 Feb 25 12:38 CVS
  -rw-rw-r--    1 0             107 Jun 21  1994 Makefile
  drwxrwxr-x    6 0             512 Jun 21  1994 iso
  drwxrwxr-x   14 0             512 Jun 21  1994 papers
  drwxrwxr-x    6 0             512 May 13 10:36 psd
  drwxrwxr-x    8 1000          512 May 13 10:36 smm
  drwxrwxr-x    6 1000          512 May 13 10:36 usd

psd is "programmer's supplemental documentation"
smm is "system manager manuals"
usd is "user's supplemental documentation"