From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Mar 1 17:36:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8725B37BE81 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:36:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 25087 invoked from network); 2 Mar 2000 01:36:19 -0000 Received: from userbl70.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.177) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 01:36:19 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA00709; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:36:17 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:36:16 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: Will Andrews , Reuben Halper , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Complete FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000302013616.A327@marder-1> References: <20000301135913.B646@argon.blackdawn.com> <20000301190657.D327@marder-1> <20000302095254.C2905@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000302095254.C2905@freebie.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:52:55AM +1030 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:52:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 1 March 2000 at 19:06:58 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:59:13PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:52:07PM -0500, Reuben Halper wrote: > >>> Is "The Complete FreeBSD" book still available in electronic form free of > >>> charge? I couldn't find it anywhere on ftp.cdrom.com. > >> > >> IIANM, it was never available in electronic form. > > > > Maybe Reuben is thinking of the ASCII version that is on the CDs? > > It's still available on the CDs in ASCII form, but that's not free of > charge. It's specifically limited to the user of the CD: > Obviously, but it's "free of charge" if you've you buy the CDs albeit less readable than the book :) > One thing you should note, though: this book is copyright. By > buying the CD- ROM, you have a license to use it for your own > personal use. You may not give it to other people, or use the text > in other documents without the prior written approval of Walnut > Creek CDROM. > > Apart from that, the rendition is painful. It's intended primarily to > help you grep for things in the book. > Which, of course, is a godsend at times. > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message