Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:52:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: walton@nordicdms.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 02:13:48PM %2B0000 References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com>
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On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 14:13:48 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Dave Walton wrote: >> >> On 5 Jan 99, at 21:52, Graeme Tait wrote: >> >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> 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. > > What plans do you have for the next edition, Greg?. Timescales, > changes etc? I'm hoping to have it out by April. I'm open to suggestions about what should be included. >> What I'd like to see is the "Selected man pages" section turn into >> "Essential man pages". That is, man pages for the commands you >> need when you find yourself poking around in single user mode >> trying to figure out ed enough to fix things. Yes, there have been a >> couple of times I would have killed for a printed ed man page -- >> please put that one on the list! And, as Graeme points out, >> disklabel and newfs are good candidates, too. > > Might also be worth considering including some of the very long > ones. That's how the Second Edition got so big. The First Edition didn't have so many long man pages. I think the better approach would be to consider a man pages book. We had thought of this back in 1995, but we never got round to doing it. What do you people think? The question isn't ``is it a good idea?'', it's ``would you buy one?''. 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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