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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 16 Aug 1995 20:06:08 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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In article <40rhfu$bgb@wolfe.wimsey.com>,

>Also, the documentation is not as good as Linux, and it seems likely
>to me that FreeBSD is better in that department, too. The setreuid()
>system call documentation, for example, is blatantly incorrect.

If you find a problem with a man page, you could certainly send
a bug report.

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