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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:25:07 +0100 (MET)
From:      Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@student.uni-ulm.de>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: beginners with bsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011030219130.6170-100000@lyra-fddi2.rz.uni-ulm.de>
In-Reply-To: <20001103003014.D4698@hades.hell.gr>

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On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Hi Giorgos,

> What can anyone say about an OS where the manpages are considered something
> `extra' that is not part of the system itself? *sigh*

That it is often used in embedded systems? ;-)

Ciao
Siegbert

P.S.: Of course FreeBSD man pages are really two classes above Linux'
ones. Does FreeBSD really not allow installation without man-pages? Seems
to be more a bug than a feature, if you want to install on ancient
hardware with small disks (or in embedded systems; is FreebSD used in this
way also?).



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