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From: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXTstation: where the bleep is cc? Where are the MAN PAGES ?!?
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Date: 12 Feb 91 15:40:52 GMT
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In article Re: NeXTstation: where the bleep is cc? Where are the MAN PAGES ?!?
 haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson)
of : York Computing Services writes:



  Thank you for this thread.... Oh well, my plans of buying a Next just got 
tossed.  I'll have to wait until I can afford a bigger disk in order to do
any compiles or read the manuals (don't even suggest paper). 

[... more stuff removed ...]

When you buy a 105 Mbyte machine from NeXT it comes prepackaged
with what they consider to be a useful machine for the average
user.  However the average user reading this is probably computer
literate.  The license with the machine says you can get the
rest of the extended release license free (that is to say
you have already paid for the right to use it).  Next offers
the extended release on floppies and OD (i think...)  However
what they do not offer are scripts to grab parts of the
distribution that you want from a friend or a local distributor.
This means a lot of hassles getting what you easily.  Harold's
message was good in that it provided a "grocery list" of functionality
he wanted.  Right now we have no way of easily serving him.
The solution is obvious, someone has to sit down with
a full distribution and limited one and write scripts to
package useful stuff together.  I will probably sit down
in the next week or two and start writing some of the
obvious ones (compiler, emacs, man pages...)  I suggest
that others sit down and do the same, and we put these
scripts on the archive servers with the standard disclaimers.

pasc