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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD FAQ Available?
Date: 8 Jun 1995 09:32:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Message-ID: <3r6g3o$1pr@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <D9psyK.JDM@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3r3ofc$l9o@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <3r4fbb$c6n@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>
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In article <3r4fbb$c6n@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>,
Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
>>look at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/.
>
>where you will find a directory FAQ which contains no FAQ,
>and a directory docs which contains no docs.

Excuse me?

% ftp ftp.freebsd.org
<anon login sequence elided>
ftp> cd pub/FreeBSD 
250-Please read the file README
250-  it was last modified on Thu Apr  6 04:03:26 1995 - 63 days ago
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> cd FAQ
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 Jan  3 21:09 FreeBSD-1.X
-rw-r--r--  1 jkh   wheel   714 Nov  8  1994 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1024 Jun  4 02:59 Text
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   512 May  4 02:40 extras

Sigh..

>In the words of the great Clint, "Marvellous!".

My words exactly! :)

						Jordan