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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
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>>>>> "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.

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