Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:12:13 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers), doc@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Documenters) Subject: What printed documentation do we need? Message-ID: <199601201712.SAA20327@allegro.lemis.de>
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I'm currently in the process of formatting the FreeBSD man pages for
printing, and it's evident that there's a lot of stuff missing. In
particular:
1. For the most part, the user's guide stuff supplied with the system
is so out-of-date that it's not worth printing. This stuff is
available from O'Reilly already, including a number of files we're
not allowed to distribute.
2. There's a *lot* of documentation. The man pages alone come to
over 3000 pages.
3. There's a lot of stuff in source form. At a guess, I'd say that
it would be easy enough to produce 10,000 pages of supplementary
documentation from the other sources. I don't think this is a
particularly Good Idea.
So, the question: which other documentation should be in paper form?
For a gut feel, I'd say we could handle another 1500 to 2000 pages.
Greg
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