From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 06:15:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19788 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 06:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA19782 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 06:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Received: from [140.228.15.35] (asterion.onu.edu [140.228.15.35]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19349; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:14:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:08:31PM -0600 <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:19:30 -0500 To: Greg Lehey From: Robert Beer Subject: Re: Printed man pages Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Greg, 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. --- Bob Beer Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message