Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:46:02 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages Message-ID: <19990108194602.F1504@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <l0310286bb2b92039c92a@[140.228.15.35]>; from Robert Beer on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:19:30AM -0500 References: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>; <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> <l0310286bb2b92039c92a@[140.228.15.35]>
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On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:19:30AM -0500, Robert Beer wrote: > At 8:33 PM -0500 1/5/1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >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 best compromise on this would be to eliminate most of the > man pages except for things like sh and fsck that are necessary for > recovery from a boot failure. The idea would be to provide enough > information to get a system back to a usable state. yup, this sounds really good to me .. like the other suggestion, 'esential manpages', by one of teh other participants. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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