Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:38:10 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, James Moore <jmmoore@ballistic.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <19990105223810.A28051@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 12:03:53PM %2B1030 References: <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 12:03:53PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 19:08:31 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > Wolfram Schneider writes: > >> On 1999-01-05 14:32:27 -0600, James Moore wrote: > > [...] > >> You need a postscript printer to print the manpages. > >> > >> FreeBSD has more than 1400 manpages. If you print them all > >> you need more than 3000-4000 pages paper. > >> > >> You can download the FreeBSD manpages from > >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/manpages/ > > > > Most of the manpages are printed in Greg Lehey's book, "The Complete > > FreeBSD". Book is cheaper than the paper and toner required to print > > the manpages. See http://www.cdrom.com/ > > The general consensus is that the man pages are a waste of space, and > they make the book too heavy. The next edition won't have them. If > anybody has strong feelings about this, please let me know. Why not produce a multi-volume reference set? Perhaps Volume 1 "Installing and Running FreeBSD" Volume 2 "The Complete FreeBSD" (without man pages) Volume 3 "FreeBSD DOC" (man pages) Have you considered revamping "Porting UNIX Software" into a FreeBSD-centric text? -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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