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Tom Munro Glass wrote:

>When you install FreeBSD, lots of useful documentation is installed in the 
>articles and books directories under /usr/share/doc/ including the essential 
>handbook.
>
>Is there a way of automatically updating this documentation - I thought that 
>maybe this was done as a part of cvsup, make buildworld, etc, but apparently 
>not? I realise that I can download the latest version with FTP, but it would 
>be nice if this could be done as part of the normal maintenance tasks.
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom Munro Glass
>  
>

You'd do it in similar fashion; in fact you could rather easily
script it, I suppose.

$cvsup doc-all[*]  
$cd /usr/doc && make install clean

*see /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile for details.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.