Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:23:21 -0200 From: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, walton@nordicdms.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <36956C19.17C74F0@netshell.vicosa.com.br> References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com>
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I believe, that some thing about amd would be nice!
What you have to say about my suggestion?
Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> 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
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