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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!news.dkrz.de!tubsibr!news From: y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 4.4BSD docs in source (where?) Date: 05 Nov 1995 09:19:53 +0100 Organization: TU Braunschweig, Germany Lines: 33 Sender: y0001415@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de Distribution: world Message-ID: <87pwf779sj.fsf@malibu.ts.rz.tu-bs.de> References: <46h61h$rbg@dscomsa.desy.de> <473j3e$ovk@mark.ucdavis.edu> <47c066$1r6@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzrtr1.rz.tu-bs.de In-reply-to: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au's message of 3 Nov 1995 13:52:54 +1100 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.1 >>>>> "RG" == Raoul Golan <raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> writes: In article <47c066$1r6@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au> raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan) writes: RG> ccjason@quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler) writes: RG> I know you can get this from /usr/share/doc in the 4.4BSD-Lite RG> tree, and that it's a simple matter of ftp-ing to a local RG> site to download it. I also know that Walnut Creek publishes RG> the Lite source on a CD ROM (NOT the FreeBSD CD ROM). They're NOT complete! Encumbered parts are missing, just as in FreeBSD! RG> What I don't know is why, WHY?, FreeBSD hasn't included RG> this doco in its releases. Please, someone elucidate! RG> Are there copyright restrictions, space restrictions, or RG> is this a terrible oversight? You can find them in the source distribution under /usr/src/share/doc/*. But as I said, they're far from being complete. RG> While we're at it, why omit the pascal compiler from the RG> FreeBSD release? It's included in Lite.... why all this RG> "pruning"?? RG> Confused, RG> Raoul. -- Martin Butkus >>> Live long and prosper. <<< Phone/Fax: +49.5331.298710 Am Stadtwege 10, 38304 Wolfenbuettel, Germany IDDM, 7yrs, MI