Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:07:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@nvl.virginia.edu> To: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly prints FreeBSD book (WAS: Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD) Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980511134917.19789J-100000@huron.nvl.virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980508223841.19950C-100000@voyager.cris.com>
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On Fri, 8 May 1998, Andrew Short wrote: > On Sat, 9 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > Great, now can we get the same thing to happen for the WC version? > > > Everyone hates the man pages! ;-) > > > > Do they? This is the first complaint I've heard. But maybe they'll > > let you into to storeroom to tear them out. > > If OReilly is going to kill the man pages (and it certainly appears that > they are going to do so), I would buy another book that HAD the man pages. > I PREFER -to the point of chemical dependency- written documentation. > Printed documentation is nice when you can get away from your desk long enough for it to be more than a burden. I'd give my eye teeth for a book that had '/'-regex searching as a feature. After all, it's hard to beat the battery life of a book. ;-) Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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