Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:08:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <19990108130813.M92409@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990105235246.brownicm@netunlimited.net>; from Chris Browning on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 11:52:46PM -0500 References: <3.0.3.32.19990105174116.006b8694@silk.net> <XFMail.990105235246.brownicm@netunlimited.net>
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On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 23:52:46 -0500, Chris Browning wrote: > On 06-Jan-99 Eddie Lawhead wrote: >> At 12:03 PM 1/6/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 19:08:31 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >>>> Wolfram Schneider writes: >>>>> On 1999-01-05 14:32:27 -0600, James Moore wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>> You need a postscript printer to print the manpages. >>>>> >>>>> FreeBSD has more than 1400 manpages. If you print them all >>>>> you need more than 3000-4000 pages paper. >>>>> >>>>> You can download the FreeBSD manpages from >>>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/manpages/ >>>> >>>> Most of the manpages are printed in Greg Lehey's book, "The Complete >>>> FreeBSD". Book is cheaper than the paper and toner required to print >>>> the manpages. See http://www.cdrom.com/ >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> I think the man pages are great in the book. It is nice to have >> something easier to read than a screen when we want docs. > > I'm very sad to hear that O'Reilly will no longer publish the 4.4 BSD manuals. > Glad I got a set. Maybe someone feels that they're becoming not quite relevant > or something. O'Reilly was very disappointed in the sales of the 4.4BSD manuals. It's a reason why they're not interested in publishing any FreeBSD stuff. > But that's where I go. There are things that are better on a > printed page. I usually have Greg's book or a browser open to one page and the > BSD _book_ open to another. Invaluable, both of them. You can't do this stuff > w/out man pages and yes, it's a pain in the pants to have to read them off a > screen sometimes. Besides, you never know when you might want something that > just had to get left out of Greg's selection. Maybe if enough folks pestered > O'Reilly they would re-issue. Just my 2 cents' worth. Thanks Greg & please, > please Tim! I was talking about a book with O'Reilly last year, but it seems to have petered out. I suspect they've decided to do it without me, but they may be doing it. I'll enquire. 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
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