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From: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Handbook distribution?
Date: 21 Jul 1995 16:27:00 GMT
Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA
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In article <3ujv9b$gjg@anshar.shadow.net>,
Don Whiteside <dwhite@anshar.shadow.net> wrote:
>IMHO it would be nice if it were automatically tarred&zipped daily 
>(weekly? I dunno how often it is updated) and made available on 
>ftp.freebsd. I can't be the only person who would sacrifice the disk 
>space for the speed increase.

Well, actually, it is tarred&zipped daily (if any changes were
made).  Just today I've made a link to that version; see
http://www.freebsd.org/How.  

-john
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