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Date:      Sat, 9 May 1998 09:41:32 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Peter Schwenk <schwenk@voicenet.com>, Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: O'Reilly Book.
Message-ID:  <19980509094132.S12200@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980508140657.28072H-100000@omni1>; from Peter Schwenk on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 02:08:36PM -0400
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.96.980508023548.29444F-100000@mariner.cris.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980508140657.28072H-100000@omni1>

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On Fri,  8 May 1998 at 14:08:36 -0400, Peter Schwenk wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 1998, Andrew Short wrote:
>
>>
>> Someone on here mentioned a FreeBSD book by O'Reilly.  If they publish one
>> I definitely want to buy it, but I havent been able to locate it on their
>> web site.
>>
>> HAS it been published or is it just "in the works?"???
>
> O'Reilly published books on the 4.4BSD UNIX (from which FreeBSD is
> derived), so they do apply.  I think they stopped printing them though.

The 4.4BSD manuals sold very badly.  That's one of the reasons they
didn't want to publish the FreeBSD book for so long.  Don't expect to
see them again in a hurry.

Greg
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