From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 26 17:55:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA22433 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA22416 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:54:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02297; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:26:30 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703270126.RAA02297@austin.polstra.com> To: chad@anasazi.com Subject: Re: SUP Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.stable In-Reply-To: <9703262308.AA08251@chad.anasazi.com> References: <9703262308.AA08251@chad.anasazi.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:26:29 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <9703262308.AA08251@chad.anasazi.com>, Chad R. Larson 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