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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: gas manual (as.1) empty in source distribution (386BSD) ?
References: <1992Sep1.064725.2551@autelca.ascom.ch>
Date:  1 Sep 92 11:22:02 GMT
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In <1992Sep1.064725.2551@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes:

>Hi 386BSD-users, bug-fixers, etc. !

>I have access to a distribution host via NFS. On this host there
>is the full distribution (bindist, srcdist, etcdist, etc.) and another
>tree with the sources unpacked. Now, I copied all the sources to my local
>harddisk because it's faster due to the slow link used by NFS.
>However, the file gas/as.1 is empty !
>I checked the srcdist on this server by the famous
>cat src??.?? | uncompress | cpio -itv usr/src/usr.bin/gas/as.1
>commandline and the result was:
>100444 root        0  Mar  3 09:28:09 1991  usr/src/usr.bin/gas/as.1
>meaning that this file is really empty in the srcdist set of files.

That is unfortunately true: The file is empty.
But when looking into the tar archive of GNU gas, I didn't find a 
man page either. So there is none. There is however a texinfo file for 
inclusion into GNU EMACS help.
The empty file, however must be there, to make the 'make' lucky.

>Did anybody else discover this problem or is it just this server ?

>I would like to get a complete distribution, so, if somebody can mail
>this file to me, I will be happy.

The info file is called gas-doc.tar.Z and should be available from anywhere
you can get GNU sources.

>Thank you in advance,

>Norbert.
>-- 
>Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland
>Phone: +41 31 999 65 52			FAX: +41 31 999 65 44
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