25 Apr
2010
25 Apr
'10
5:32 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Jacob Goense <dugo(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> It got me curious about where 386BSD ended
though. Did anyone save
>> the 386BSD Reference CD-ROM Release 1.0 from /dev/null?
>
> Yes, I have a copy. It was pretty much useless. All the
> documentation was in some Microsoft format, and I couldn't read it.
> Unfortunately Dr Dobbs has a copyright on it, or I could upload it for
> the curious.
Using tools that were not available 15 years ago, Google search for
"windows+help+file+reader" leads me to, among others:
<http://helpexplorer.software.informer.com/> which looks promising.
Of course I don't have anything to try exercising it on.
That's about what I understood from as well from
reading this column
at http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/tin/P/199503.shtml
"The 386BSD release CD-ROM includes a mixture of BSD and Jolitz code,
articles, and what have you. The files are hyperlinked with a global
glossary and index to illustrate the structure and interdependence in
the discussion of the system files.
The stuff in WinHelp format being useless, ok, but what about the
system on the CD, did you ever try booting and installing it?
Maybe WinHelp format has not changed over the decades.
carl
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