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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-8.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: New FAQ-Lite.... Date: 17 Nov 1996 14:40:14 -0600 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <56nt7e$je4@cynjut.neonramp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4879 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31169 In response to some suggestions I've received of late, I have removed about 30% of the stuff from the FAQ. The stuff that remains is the stuff that applies directly to recent versions of NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. A lot of it is "yeah, I know that" for people who've been around this stuff for a while but not intuitive for most folks (like why IRQ 2 and 9 are the same, but different). In spite of that, the new FAQ is still over 400k (down from over 700k). If you would like to get a taste of the new FAQ (the numbers on the questions weren't even changed yet) you can get to it through my Web site (cynjut.neonramp.com/FAQ.html). I am hoping some folks will take this as an opportunity to help me make the FAQ a more relevant document. The old FAQ is still available (from the same Web site) for those of you that need some of the stuff that was removed. I don't plan on doing anything to it for at least a year after the last WWW access of the file. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) *bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that doesn't want to do it...."