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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 5 Jun 1995 22:52:22 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) wrote: 
] >http://www.freebsd.org:80/How/handbook/
] 
] Is this the same handbook that consists of 17 .sgml files ?
] Which I found at
] 
] ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FAQ/../doc/handbook ?

Yes, except it's been run through 'sgmlfmt' to produce HTML
(as opposed to the other options to produce LaTEX, etc.).

] Why not in /pub/FreeBSD/docs ?

It's not done yet, and someone would have to install over 15M of
LaTEX to do the conversion, but nobody likes LaTEX?

                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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