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From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: SunOS4.1.3 to Solaris2.5.1 Porting issues.
Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:02:32 -0800
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j> That's still no reason to not help your customers in a transition:
j> provide a man page, and put it into libcompat.a.  State this in the
j> man page.

This is all done.

j> Or do you really believe that customers who have, heck!, _paid_ for
j> your stuff should get their knowledge from Usenet, as opposed to
j> the system's documentation?

If the people in question actually read the system documentation, they
might find the information they were looking for.

If *you*, in your turn, troubled to read it, you would proesumably not
be posting silly followups.

	<b

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