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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:26:29 -0800
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        chad@anasazi.com
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SUP
Message-ID:  <199703270126.RAA02297@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <9703262308.AA08251@chad.anasazi.com>
References:  <9703262308.AA08251@chad.anasazi.com>

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In article <9703262308.AA08251@chad.anasazi.com>,
Chad R. Larson <chad@anasazi.com> wrote:
> Why change unless I had to.
> 
> This week, I had to.  It turned out not to be too painful.  A lot of
> necessary information is =only= in the on-line handbook at
> www.FreeBSD.org; it's nowhere to be found on my 2.1.7 machines.

True, that's the price of progress.  New things are (hopefully) better
than old things. :-)

> But an
> evening with Section 17.2 of that handbook, and the man page got me
> running.

Hmm, wasn't the "supconv" utility plus the "Quick Start for FreeBSD
SUP Users" section of the man page adequate?  Is there something I
could do to improve those parts?

> I took the easy way out and picked up the static binaries to
> avoid having to build and deal with Modula-3.

Probably a good idea.  I never get any bug reports about problems
building CVSup, but I get plenty about problems building Modula-3. :-(

John
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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