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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Documentation for Minix 1.3d
Message-ID: <1862@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 5 Jan 89 19:54:37 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <6217@louie.udel.EDU> jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) writes:
... it [MINIX]  is no
>longer completely documented by the textbook.  The book does not mention any
>-O or -i parameters on the cc call.  It doesn't mention rs232, or networking,
>or kermit, or any of a host of things which seem to me to have been either
>not mentioned anywhere 

That is certainly true.  It has to do with the difference between software
and books.  Software is frequently updated, with releases all the time.
New editions of books are sparser, one every 3 or 4 years, perhaps.  None
of the things you mentioned existed at the time the book was written.  They
are all now included in the online documentation, and will be in the second
edition of the book unless the printer complains (the book is 719 pages; at
a certain point somebody is going to say: "This is not supposed to be an
unabridged dictionary.")

Kermit postdates even 1.3..

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)