Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 17:41:16 -0800 From: Eddie Lawhead <eddie@silk.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: James Moore <jmmoore@ballistic.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19990105174116.006b8694@silk.net> In-Reply-To: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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At 12:03 PM 1/6/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >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. > I think the man pages are great in the book. It is nice to have something easier to read than a screen when we want docs. Eddie H. Lawhead eddie@silk.NOSPAM.net >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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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