From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 18:26:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15087 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 18:26:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guepardo.vicosa.com.br (guepardo.tdnet.com.br [200.236.148.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA15076 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 18:26:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br) Received: from netshell.vicosa.com.br [200.236.148.207] by guepardo.vicosa.com.br with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id AE8D71C00D2; Thu, 07 Jan 1999 23:33:49 +03d00 Message-ID: <36956C19.17C74F0@netshell.vicosa.com.br> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:23:21 -0200 From: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: Mark Ovens , walton@nordicdms.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe, that some thing about amd would be nice! What you have to say about my suggestion? Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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 -- " ... Overall we've found FreeBSD to excel in performace, stability, technical support, and of course price. Two years after discovering FreeBSD, we have yet to find a reason why we switch to anything else" -David Filo, Yahoo! +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ UIN: 27456973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message