Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:12:13 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> 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: <19990108121212.A5891@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 12:52:05PM %2B1030 References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 12:52:05PM +1030, 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?''. I wouldn't buy one -- I purchase many copies. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > 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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