Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:06:41 +0100 From: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <19990106110641.A19258@sr.se> 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: > > 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. > > Greg Since I already got the second edition WITH the manpages, I could certainly do without them in a new edition. And there is always the possibility to print man pages that are interesting. I print them with a2ps to fit two pages on each A4-paper to save paper. -- __o regards, Gunnar ---_ \<,_ email: flygt@sr.se ---- (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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