From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 6 21:43:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from drwho.xnet.com (drwho.xnet.com [205.243.140.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F5514DEF for ; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@drwho.xnet.com) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by drwho.xnet.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id XAA73404 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 6 Mar 1999 23:43:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from drwho) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 23:43:15 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Complete FreeBSD", THIRD edition: question Message-ID: <19990306234315.A73380@drwho.xnet.com> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19990306010220.55BEF1528C@hub.freebsd.org> <19990307102038.L490@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990307102038.L490@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:20:38AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:20:38AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 6:07:06 -0500, Thomas Good wrote: > > Greg - Forgive me if I've missed a posting...has it been resolved > > whether you will be separating the man pages from the install & conf > > portion of your forthcoming 3E? > > Pretty much. Most man pages will go, but I'll leave a few behind, > those which would be of help if your system is down and won't come up. Then I certainly hope the cost of the book will be significantly less than the previous releases, due to the missing manpages. At least 70% of the reason I bought the book in the first place was because of the nicely printed man pages. Is there any chance that you might consider releasing the manpages in a second volume? -- Michael Maxwell | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/ "American Justice: oxymoron. William J. Clinton: moron." --M. Maxwell (1999) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message