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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: 4.4 BSD /usr/include/netinet headers needed
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:07:14 -0500
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Jose R. Cordones wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I desperately need the contents of /usr/include/netinet from a 4.4BSD
> system to comply with Satan's wish [oops! I mean Darn Farmer's Satan!] of me
> feeding it those instead of Linux's /usr/include/netinet [je.. ironic
> that it can't be compiled on system foo until I get headers from system
> bar.. just to keep the programmer's interface consistent, eh?]
> 
> I've been searching for urls, ftp sites, etc. where "4.4 BSD Source Code
> Only" is kept but haven't run across such a place.  Did people take away
> all of these sites from public access due to some licensing problem?
> 
The *BSD code is free and freely redistributable (there are very few
encumberances using and redistributing the *BSD code.)  A good source
for it
is ftp://ftp.freebsd.org and both the original 4.4 sources and FreeBSD
reside
on that machine.

John
dyson@freebsd.org