From: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: "The Complete FreeBSD", THIRD edition: question) Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.96.990308111533.25001B-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990308134640.G490@lemis.com>
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Greg, I would definitely buy and additional documentation on FreeBSD. I am lucky to have an extensive *BSD documentation set: 4.2BSD and 4.4BSD manuals McKusick's "Beastie" book - 4.3 (autographed by all authors) and 4.4 editions. Eric Wayte Database Administrator University of Central Florida ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:46:40 +1030 > From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > To: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Printed man pages (was: "The Complete FreeBSD", THIRD edition: question) > > On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 23:43:15 -0600, Michael Maxwell wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:20:38AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 6:07:06 -0500, Thomas Good wrote: > >>> Greg - Forgive me if I've missed a posting...has it been resolved > >>> whether you will be separating the man pages from the install & conf > >>> portion of your forthcoming 3E? > >> > >> Pretty much. Most man pages will go, but I'll leave a few behind, > >> those which would be of help if your system is down and won't come up. > > > > Then I certainly hope the cost of the book will be significantly less than > > the previous releases, due to the missing manpages. At least 70% of the > > reason I bought the book in the first place was because of the nicely > > printed man pages. > > > > Is there any chance that you might consider releasing the manpages in a > > second volume? > > There's a chance. Walnut Creek is investigating the possibility of > cheaper techniques to print small book runs. I'd like to hear from > people who would be interested in buying a "man pages" book, something > like the ones that O'Reilly did for 4.4BSD. > > 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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