From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 11 00:07:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22609 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:07:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22597 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bkogawa@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21438; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:07:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip205.sjc.primenet.com(206.165.96.205), claiming to be "foo.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd021415; Sat Apr 11 00:07:37 1998 Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA10227; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 00:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804110708.AAA10227@foo.primenet.com> To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, brett@lariat.org, mike@smith.net.au, dshanes@personalogic.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [redirected to -chat] In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >And, for example, I can explain why *I* did not bought them. >Because they are just printouts of man pages, partially obsolete. This is true of the books in general, except for the "User Supplementary Documents" and "Programmer's Supplementary Documents", both of which contain useful papers and articles which aren't available on my system. Some of the highlights: documentation on the Bourne shell documentation on troff (as well as on a number of the macro sets) design documentation on the 7th edition Not everyone will find them useful, but I have. -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message