Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 23:52:46 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <XFMail.990105235246.brownicm@netunlimited.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990105174116.006b8694@silk.net>
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I'm very sad to hear that O'Reilly will no longer publish the 4.4 BSD manuals. Glad I got a set. Maybe someone feels that they're becoming not quite relevant or something. But that's where I go. There are things that are better on a printed page. I usually have Greg's book or a browser open to one page and the BSD _book_ open to another. Invaluable, both of them. You can't do this stuff w/out man pages and yes, it's a pain in the pants to have to read them off a screen sometimes. Besides, you never know when you might want something that just had to get left out of Greg's selection. Maybe if enough folks pestered O'Reilly they would re-issue. Just my 2 cents' worth. Thanks Greg & please, please Tim! On 06-Jan-99 Eddie Lawhead wrote: > At 12:03 PM 1/6/99 +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. >> > > I think the man pages are great in the book. It is nice to have > something easier to read than a screen when we want docs. > > Eddie H. Lawhead > eddie@silk.NOSPAM.net > >>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 >> >> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> Date: 05-Jan-99 Time: 23:36:38 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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