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From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl>
To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
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Subject: Re: Help, I've been SCOed!
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On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Jake Hamby wrote:

> 3) Start thinking about a custom help system like scohelp, which would
> combine man pages and HTML through a custom HTTP server that could be
> accessed remotely.  Everyone is moving to HTML (or SGML) anyway, including
> our own FreeBSD Handbook.  We just need to make things more approachable
> for new users.
> 
> All of these have been discussed recently in hackers, so I thought I'd
> post this as a summary of how one vendor has done things.  I wish I had
> some more insightful comments, but I hope that repeating what they've done
> wrong should show us what we can do better.
> 
> I hope you found these comments useful and relevant.  Overall, I'd say
> FreeBSD has done as good (and often better) job than many commercial UNIX
> vendors have done, as my experience today proved!  BTW, now I know that if
> I had spent $10 on "Free SCO", it would've been wasted money.  Rather to
> find that out with someone else paying me, than vice versa! :-) Now, when
> Free UnixWare comes out, that I might think about buying.  Comments? 
> 
> -- Jake
> 


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