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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:41:30 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Missing manual chapters?
Message-ID:  <19971013164130.41389@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012233736.9609S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 11:38:42PM -0700
References:  <19971010100019.17291@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012233736.9609S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Sun, Oct 12, 1997 at 11:38:42PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 05:58:00PM -0400, Matt Behrens wrote:
>>> Why are the PSD, SMM, and USD missing chapters?  (in /usr/share/doc)
>>
>> They're AT&T copyright.  To quote from the O'Reilly edition of SMM:
>>
>> SMM: 15, 16 1nd 17 are copyright 1979, AT&T Bell Laboratories
>> Incorporated.  Document SMM: 14 is a modification of an earlier
>> document that is copyrighted 1979 by AT&T Bell Laboratories
>> Incorporated...
>>
>> You can get them all in the printed version, but it's not worth the
>> trouble.  They're pretty out-of-date.
>
> You can also grab them from http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/doc/, where they
> have been conveniently formatted in HTML with xref's.

To clarify: you can get the unencumbered chapters at
http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/doc/.  You can also build them from
source.  The O'Reilly books include the encumbered chapters as well,
for what they're worth.

Greg



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