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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 6 Jan 1997 11:28:09 -0800
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In article <5aj14j$ri8@abel.ic.sunysb.edu>,
Carl S Shapiro <cshapiro@ic.sunsyb.edu> wrote:

>NetBSD needs a nicer install program, and some kind of "getting
>started with NetBSD" document/book.  This is one thing we should have
>learned from Linux a long time ago.

I don't see how this hasn't been `learned' from Linux already; I
don't think you will or would ever have found anyone to disagree
that it would be nice to have a `Getting Started with NetBSD' book.

However, nobody has stepped forward to write it. Do you think it's
sufficiently important for you to step forward and write it?

cjs
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