From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 20:54:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA15171 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 20:54:56 -0800 Received: from mail.telstra.com.au (mail.telstra.com.au [192.148.160.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA15158 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 20:54:48 -0800 Received: from mail_gw.fwall.telecom.com.au(192.148.147.10) by mail via smap (V1.3) id sma018692; Fri Nov 3 10:16:50 1995 Received: from cdn_mail.dn.itg.telecom.com.au(144.135.109.134) by mail_gw.telecom.com.au via smap (V1.3) id sma015601; Fri Nov 3 15:52:21 1995 Received: from rodin.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (rodin.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au [149.135.252.15]) by cdn_mail.dn.itg.telecom.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA24171; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:52:19 +1100 Received: from crab.ind.tansu.com.au (crab.ind.tansu.com.au [149.135.100.23]) by rodin.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA06542; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:52:18 +1100 Received: from kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au (raoul@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au [149.135.104.48]) by crab.ind.tansu.com.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA04051; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:52:17 +1100 Received: (raoul@localhost) by kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA04004; Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:52:16 +1100 Message-Id: <199511030452.PAA04004@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au> Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-Lite documentation To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:52:16 +1100 (EST) Cc: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Nov 2, 95 10:56:36 pm From: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2758 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Raoul Golan wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > Why hasn't the 4.4BSD-Lite documentation (in /usr/share/doc) > > made it into the FreeBSD source? I'm talking about the stuff > > that went into the O'Reilly books. > > It has ... I don't understand maybe, this stuff is in /usr/share/doc from > /usr/src/share/doc, and it does get built, in a make world, to an ascii > equivalent. Making a postscript equivalent would be pretty simple to do, > too. What's missing that you're asking for? > I'm just curious why, for instance, in the USD, we have in 4.4BSD-Lite : 01.begin/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 02.learn/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 03.shell/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 04.csh/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 05.dc/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 06.bc/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 07.mail/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 08.mh/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 09.edtut/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 10.edadv/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 11.edit/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 12.vi/ 04-May-94 00:00 - 13.ex/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 14.jove/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 15.sed/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 16.awk/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 17.msmacros/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 18.msdiffs/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 19.memacros/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 20.meref/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 21.troff/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 22.trofftut/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 23.eqn/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 24.eqnguide/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 25.tbl/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 26.refer/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 27.invert/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 28.bib/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 29.diction/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 30.rogue/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 31.trek/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - whereas in FreeBSD-current we have : 04.csh/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 07.mail/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 10.exref/ 31-Jul-95 06:14 - 11.vitut/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 12.vi/ 31-Jul-95 06:14 - 13.viref/ 07-Jun-95 17:34 - 18.msdiffs/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 19.memacros/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 20.meref/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 30.rogue/ 07-Jun-95 17:34 - 31.trek/ 07-Jun-95 17:34 - Again, in the SMM for 4.4BSD-Lite we have: Or am I missing something? It looks to me like there's been a decision to "trim" the documentation (as well as part of the source, such as the pascal compiler). It may be because that part of the documentation is not applicable to FreeBSD - that's what I'm curious about.