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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: man pages
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:19:15 -0500
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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[Posted and mailed]

In article <01bc46f0$17a2c590$8850a58e@munro>,
	"Munro" <munro@bucktech.com> writes:
> 
> 
> 	I do not have fbsd's man pages installed and would like to install  them 
> if any one knows were I could down load them from I have a a high speed
> connection
> so size no concern.
> 
> 	I would also like to get Xwindows as well. I've cruised the freebsd  site 
> and haven't found it....yet so if any one can point me to the exact
> location 
> I would appreciate it..

You could run /stand/sysinstall, do a "custom" install via ftp, and choose
the man and XFree86 distributions.

To make it as simple as possible, make sure you're *already connected*
before you do this, then you can use your already existing connection,
rather than have to muck about with configuring ppp manually.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier		http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads