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From: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD docs in source (where?)
Date: 3 Nov 1995 13:52:54 +1100
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ccjason@quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler) writes:

>Olaf Manczak (olavi@zow.desy.de) wrote:
>: Could anybody point me where can I find a complete 4.4BSD documentation
>: in source (or in Postscript) ?

>: -- Olaf Manczak

>O'reilly & Associates puts out a set of 4.4bsd manuals.

>--
>Vale,
> 		jason 

Er, yes, they do.  But the question asked for doco *in source*
(presumably TeX) or *Postscript*.

I know you can get this from /usr/share/doc in the 4.4BSD-Lite
tree, and that it's a simple matter of ftp-ing to a local
site to download it.  I also know that Walnut Creek publishes
the Lite source on a CD ROM (NOT the FreeBSD CD ROM).

What I don't know is why, WHY?, FreeBSD hasn't included
this doco in its releases.  Please, someone elucidate!
Are there copyright restrictions, space restrictions, or
is this a terrible oversight?

While we're at it, why omit the pascal compiler from the
FreeBSD release?  It's included in Lite.... why all this 
"pruning"??

Confused,

Raoul.