From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 17:34:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20916 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:34:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20911 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA10758; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:03:51 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA83153; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:03:53 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:03:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: James Moore , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:08:31PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 19:08:31 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Wolfram Schneider writes: >> On 1999-01-05 14:32:27 -0600, James Moore wrote: > [...] >> You need a postscript printer to print the manpages. >> >> FreeBSD has more than 1400 manpages. If you print them all >> you need more than 3000-4000 pages paper. >> >> You can download the FreeBSD manpages from >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/manpages/ > > Most of the manpages are printed in Greg Lehey's book, "The Complete > FreeBSD". Book is cheaper than the paper and toner required to print > the manpages. See http://www.cdrom.com/ 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. If anybody has strong feelings about this, please let me know. 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