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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Healthy skepticism towards documentation
Message-ID: <11031@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Sep 89 03:13:38 GMT
References: <10817@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <10990@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14176@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1813@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1813@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) writes:
>4. see pure bsd4.2 manual. fna ? fi

That seems unduly restrictive, since an SVR2.0 emulation is available
(to source licensees) for 4.2/4.3BSD systems.  The added overhead is
practically unobservable, so our official portability policy has been
to target for the widest range of SV-compatible systems.

>6. remember, what was in v6. fna ? do i really need it ? fi

I'm curious why this is a factor.  Surely any site running 6th Edition
UNIX should have acquired a license upgrade, then the BRL/JHU version
of UNIX, 2.nBSD, or some similar modernized version?