Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:52:16 +1100 (EST) From: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan) To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-Lite documentation Message-ID: <199511030452.PAA04004@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951102225142.12891A-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Nov 2, 95 10:56:36 pm
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> > On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Raoul Golan wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > Why hasn't the 4.4BSD-Lite documentation (in /usr/share/doc) > > made it into the FreeBSD source? I'm talking about the stuff > > that went into the O'Reilly books. > > It has ... I don't understand maybe, this stuff is in /usr/share/doc from > /usr/src/share/doc, and it does get built, in a make world, to an ascii > equivalent. Making a postscript equivalent would be pretty simple to do, > too. What's missing that you're asking for? > I'm just curious why, for instance, in the USD, we have in 4.4BSD-Lite : 01.begin/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 02.learn/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 03.shell/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 04.csh/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 05.dc/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 06.bc/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 07.mail/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 08.mh/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 09.edtut/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 10.edadv/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 11.edit/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 12.vi/ 04-May-94 00:00 - 13.ex/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 14.jove/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 15.sed/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 16.awk/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 17.msmacros/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 18.msdiffs/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 19.memacros/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 20.meref/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 21.troff/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 22.trofftut/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 23.eqn/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 24.eqnguide/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 25.tbl/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 26.refer/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 27.invert/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 28.bib/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 29.diction/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 30.rogue/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - 31.trek/ 22-Mar-94 00:00 - whereas in FreeBSD-current we have : 04.csh/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 07.mail/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 10.exref/ 31-Jul-95 06:14 - 11.vitut/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 12.vi/ 31-Jul-95 06:14 - 13.viref/ 07-Jun-95 17:34 - 18.msdiffs/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 19.memacros/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 20.meref/ 22-Sep-95 06:02 - 30.rogue/ 07-Jun-95 17:34 - 31.trek/ 07-Jun-95 17:34 - Again, in the SMM for 4.4BSD-Lite we have: Or am I missing something? It looks to me like there's been a decision to "trim" the documentation (as well as part of the source, such as the pascal compiler). It may be because that part of the documentation is not applicable to FreeBSD - that's what I'm curious about.
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