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From: phillip@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au (Phillip Musumeci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 07 Dec 1995 13:22:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Systems Engineering Department, RMIT Australia
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>>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> writes:

    Timothy> Would a person installing FreeBSD for the first time be likely
    Timothy> to have WWW access?

For FreeBSD-2.1R, the documentation comes in HTML and ascii format in areas
such as:

josephine$ ls -l /usr/share/doc
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin  bin  3584 Dec  1 06:49 FAQ
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin  bin  7680 Dec  1 06:50 handbook
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin  bin   512 Dec  1 06:50 papers
drwxr-xr-x  13 bin  bin   512 Dec  1 06:50 psd
drwxr-xr-x  14 bin  bin   512 Dec  1 06:50 smm
drwxr-xr-x  13 bin  bin   512 Dec  1 06:50 usd
josephine$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/handbook | head -11
total 1780
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin  604774 Nov 16 20:50 handbook.ascii
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin    8796 Nov 16 20:50 handbook.html
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin     811 Nov 16 20:50 handbook1.html
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin    1593 Nov 16 20:50 handbook10.html
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin    3165 Nov 16 20:50 handbook100.html
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin    7433 Nov 16 20:50 handbook101.html
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin    5646 Nov 16 20:50 handbook102.html
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin    2904 Nov 16 20:50 handbook103.html
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin   33428 Nov 16 20:50 handbook104.html
-r--r--r--  1 bin  bin   13994 Nov 16 20:50 handbook105.html

It is quite handy.

phillip
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