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Date:      Fri, 07 Apr 2000 11:41:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Plan to incorporate chapter 2 of the 4.4BSD book
Message-ID:  <200004071541.LAA05560@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <11945.955110594@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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On 07-Apr-00 Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:53:06 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
>> I'm in communication with the editor of the 4.4BSD book (McKusick et al)
>> about the possibility of publishing chapter 2 (Design Overview) as part
>> of the FreeBSD online handbook.
> 
> Right, we have go-ahead from Addison-Wesley to incorporate the chapter
> into our www distro, provided that mirrors do not mess with the blurb
> that describes that the text is "excerpted with permission".  Also, this
> is with the understanding that the www distro is _not_ distributed on
> CDROM.

Hmm, currently we put out the entire CVS repo on the CD's, including the
www distro.

> The original idea of incorporating this into the Handbook is obviously
> not appropriate, since the handbook is dsitrbuted on CDROM.
> 
> Addison-Wesley would like a list of our .freebsd.org www mirrors.  Where
> can I find such a thing? :-)
> 
> I have the troff sources for the chapter from Kirk, and am busy
> familiarizing myself with DocBook so that I can transcribe the text into
> the sgml form that we'll need it in.
> 
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.

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