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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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In-reply-to: tim@maths.tcd.ie's message of 7 Dec 1995 02:50:11 -0000
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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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A good environment for the teaching of "modern" microprocessors?
One where the students were conceived *before* the microprocessor. --pm