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Date:      Sat, 25 Mar 1995 10:57:15 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
To:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: httpd as part of the system.
Message-ID:  <199503251057.KAA27832@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <19824.796077849@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 24, 95 12:44:09 pm

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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said
> 
> I would like to propose that we add the following two components to our
> system in an effort to both:
> 
> 	A) Improve the infrastructure that our docs team can rely on.
> 	B) Make FreeBSD a better "out of box" Internet solution.
> 
> 1. httpd.  I don't really know which variant is best, though John Fieber
>    (our Docmaster) has a preference which I'm perfectly happy to follow
>    (I think it's the CERN httpd).

Why do we need to add a server? You don't need a server to read the docs,

> 
> 2. lynx.  This would give users the ability to browse any HTML doc we
>    supply.  Mosaic will become an optional package for the X users.

Ok, this is reasonable since you're not going to be able to read our docs
without a viewer. Anyone want to write a freely-redistributable version
of mosaic or netscape, it would certainly be usefull.

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/
  Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
  Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.



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