From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 18:23:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14808 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 18:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14799 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 18:23:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA21270; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:52:03 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA95129; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:52:05 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:52:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: walton@nordicdms.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 02:13:48PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 6 January 1999 at 14:13:48 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Dave Walton wrote: >> >> On 5 Jan 99, at 21:52, Graeme Tait wrote: >> >>> 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. > > What plans do you have for the next edition, Greg?. Timescales, > changes etc? I'm hoping to have it out by April. I'm open to suggestions about what should be included. >> What I'd like to see is the "Selected man pages" section turn into >> "Essential man pages". That is, man pages for the commands you >> need when you find yourself poking around in single user mode >> trying to figure out ed enough to fix things. Yes, there have been a >> couple of times I would have killed for a printed ed man page -- >> please put that one on the list! And, as Graeme points out, >> disklabel and newfs are good candidates, too. > > Might also be worth considering including some of the very long > ones. That's how the Second Edition got so big. The First Edition didn't have so many long man pages. I think the better approach would be to consider a man pages book. We had thought of this back in 1995, but we never got round to doing it. What do you people think? The question isn't ``is it a good idea?'', it's ``would you buy one?''. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message