Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:11:41 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: akyol@wireless.Stanford.EDU (Bora Akyol) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What printed documentation do we need? Message-ID: <199601241015.LAA00663@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960123113233.8756D-100000@wireless.Stanford.EDU>; from "Bora Akyol" at Jan 23, 96 11:34 am
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> > On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>>>> "John" == John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> writes: >> >> John> * installation * dump and restore * fsck * disklabel * >> John> newfs * maybe a couple others >> >> John> Or, more generally, for things you rarely use and >> John> consequently forget how to use and, almost by definition, >> John> online documentation is unavailable when you need them. >> >> Like adding a new drive to an existing system. >> >> -- >> Sean Kelly >> NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA >> >> Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first >> instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she >> fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny. -- Jack Handey >> > By the way, > How complete are the O'reilly books that are on 4.4BSD. I browsed > through and > thought that they > were mostly man pages. > I am thinking about buying them but do not know if it's worth it. The URM, PRM and SMM are man pages with a permutated index. The PSD and USD are guides, but as I said in my last message, they're not exactly up-to-date. Whether you find printed man pages an advantage or not depends a lot on how they're presented. I have all the O'Reilly 4.4BSD manuals, and I hardly use them because they're not accurate enough. On the other hand, I might use printed manuals if they related more closely to the system. Greg
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