Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 09:35:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly prints FreeBSD book (WAS: Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD) Message-ID: <19980509093558.Q12200@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980508173612.10898G-100000@huron.nvl.virginia.edu>; from Adrian Filipi-Martin on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 05:38:21PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508083150.431B-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.96.980508173612.10898G-100000@huron.nvl.virginia.edu>
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On Fri, 8 May 1998 at 17:38:21 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> On Fri, 8 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> Yes. I send a message to -chat several weeks ago. At the moment, >>> Andy Oram is looking at the present book and deciding what he wants to >>> change. > > [...snip...] > >> I will buy my copy as soon as it hits the shelves. > > I will definitely be doing the same. > >> (OBTW, I bought my copy of the WC book too. It is at a friend's house now. > > I bought three just last week. ;-) I give them out when I set up > FreeBSD boxes for consulting customers. I am so glad the new edition is > as big and thurough as it is. Keep up the good work! My only hope on the > new book is that there is less manpage filler. Nice to hear you like it. You'll be pleased to know that the man pages will probably go altogether, but that will make the book thinner, of course. Andy has this thing about books with more than 600 pages. You'll note that his own is only 150 pages. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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