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authorEivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-29 17:50:57 +0000
committerEivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-29 17:50:57 +0000
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Do not advertise CTM as the preferred way of getting sources any more.
Reviewed by: keichii
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=8450
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml
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--- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
- $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml,v 1.56 2000/08/22 05:54:59 kuriyama Exp $
+ $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge/chapter.sgml,v 1.57 2000/10/03 23:21:35 marko Exp $
-->
<chapter id="cutting-edge">
@@ -156,13 +156,6 @@ subscribe cvs-all</programlisting>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>Use the <application><link
- linkend="ctm">CTM</link></application> facility. Unless
- you have a good TCP/IP connection at a flat rate, this
- is the way to do it.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
<para>Use the <link linkend="cvsup">cvsup</link> program
with <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile">this
@@ -194,15 +187,24 @@ ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz</userinput></scr
<screen><prompt>ftp&gt;</prompt> <userinput>cd usr.bin</userinput>
<prompt>ftp&gt;</prompt> <userinput>get lex.tar</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Use the <application><link
+ linkend="ctm">CTM</link></application> facility. If you
+ have very bad connectivity (high price connections or
+ only e-mail access) <application>CTM</application> is an option.
+ However, it is a lot of hassle and can give you broken files.
+ This leads to it being rarely used, which again increases
+ the chance of it not working for fairly long periods of
+ time. We recommend using
+ <application><link linkend="cvsup">CVSup</link></application>
+ for anybody with a 9600bps modem or faster connection.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Essentially, if you need rapid on-demand access to the
- source and communications bandwidth is not a consideration,
- use <command>cvsup</command> or <command>ftp</command>.
- Otherwise, use <application>CTM</application>.</para>
-
<para>If you are grabbing the sources to run, and not just
look at, then grab <emphasis>all</emphasis> of current, not
just selected portions. The reason for this is that various