Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:39:36 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <19990106083937.22208.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> of Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:03:53 %2B1030 References: <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com>
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> 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 loathe the presence of the man pages in the book -- they have made it far less useful than it would otherwise have been, because it's just too damn big to manage in one hand while I juggle six keyboards and mice while trying to find out why something didn't happen the way I wanted. If a new edition came out without the man pages, I might even buy it and toss the one I have now. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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