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From: wbrooks@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Bill Brooks)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Manual
Date: 9 Jan 1995 20:17:53 -0600
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In article <5dHx3FHmsQB@antido.ping.de>,
Nate Williams  <3eelji$kt5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> writes:
>>
> The 4.4 manual set from O'Reilly (which I got from my in-laws for
> Christmas :) is a pretty complete set.  It's not 100% of everything
> since we've upgraded some utilities and some of the utilities have been
> added, but for 95% of the folks it is enough documentation for everything
> you'll need aside from writing kernel code and/or drivers.
>

Suppose you want to write a driver or add some features to the kernel?
Dr. McKusick was supposed to be writing a book on the 4.4BSD
implementation, can one of you guys send him some E-mail and ask him
when it's supposed to come out?

Bill