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Date:      Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:03:53 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        James Moore <jmmoore@ballistic.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)
Message-ID:  <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:08:31PM -0600
References:  <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>

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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
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