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Date:      Sun, 09 Apr 2000 00:18:46 -0400
From:      "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>
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:  <38F004A6.146EF2C1@mail.ptd.net>
References:  <11945.955110594@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>

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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.
> 
> The original idea of incorporating this into the Handbook is obviously
> not appropriate, since the handbook is dsitrbuted on CDROM.

How about keeping it physically outside the handbook (and CVS, since
presumably it won't be changed), somewhere on a freebsd server, and
having the appropriate places in the handbook link to it?  This way it
could be logically part of the handbook, but not be distributed with it.


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