22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
8:20 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
The FreeBSD handbook supplanted these docs years ago.
On Sep 21, 2017, at 5:02 PM, Greg
'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
There was a good reason for that. To my recollection, they hadn't
been maintained At All, and they were decades out of date. While they
were interesting for their historical content, as user/programmer
documentation they were useless at best and misleading or dangerous at
worst.
So throwing them out was easier than updating them.
As I recall, the real reason they got tossed was
because some factions
wanted to remove the *roff tools from the base OS, meaning the viewable
versions of the documents could no longer be produced.
They were really super dated more than any other reason...
Warner