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From: rlarso01@ic1d.harris.com (Ron Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Lite CD, which?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 13:07:13 GMT
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obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) wrote:

>Michael C. Cambria (cambria@sscp.lkg.dec.com) wrote:
>: I notice there are (at least?) two 4.4BSD Lite CD offerings, and I would
>: like to know what the differences are, if any.
>: 
>: Walnut Creek claims that "version 2 [is] now shipping" according to

>As a followup, what is "version 2"?

>-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)

I don't know what the specifics of version two are, but I have seen
and looked at the O'Reilly Companion CD at Bookstop. The hundred odd
some page "book" as their ads put it is simply the permuted index that
is present on all of the 4.4 BSD manuals. It simply lists out system
calls, standard functions, etc. and on what man page they can be
found.

Is the source on the FreeBSD distribution okay for what you need?


Ron Larson
rlarso01@ic1d.harris.com