From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 14:53:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240CA37BD3E for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:53:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17607; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:53:30 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdF17605; Thu Aug 3 07:53:19 2000 Message-ID: <01cc01bffccc$aba92460$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Neil Blakey-Milner" Cc: "Steve Fagan" , , "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" References: <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <014e01bffcb8$7d46fed0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000802215841.A36147@mithrandr.moria.org> <01a201bffcc0$9f2c6370$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <2000080222 Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:57:33 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Can't say I saw a mention of it on the doc@FreeBSD.org mailing list. > The thing was produced primarily to assist members of a non-profit internet group to setup gateway boxes for their permanent dialup modem connections, although many of the FreeBSD newbies have used it for whatever purpose. I haven't made any attempt to cover issues relevant to users outside the intended group (eg workstation setup). Dunno if I posted info anywhere but the newbies list. I did get feedback from some on the docs list complaining about the size of the thing due to "too many pics", but since the number of pics was what drew most if not all of the compliments I see no reason to change from that concept. Its quite slow to load because of the number of pics, & I don't know any way to reduce the size of the thing from the current 13 odd Mb without removing the pics, so its unlikely to ever be acceptable to traditional unix docs people in its present format. I'm working on a pdf format as part of the review so maybe that will prove more acceptable to the "experts" .... can't see me doing anything with latex or the like though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message