From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 19:40:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22572 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22560 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA28119 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:39:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:39:32 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) In-Reply-To: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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 I would buy a book or set of books (3 ring bound, possibly spiral :) ) containing the man pages (preferably all of them :) ) I would also be interested in buying a complete nicely printed version of the handbook, as well. Oh... I'll be buying your 3rd edition book, too :) If you're interested in other ideas, I'd like to see a good book on getting started working with the FreeBSD source tree (like the Linux Kernel Hacker's guide) I've got Mr. McKusick's wonderful red 4.4BSD book, but it lacks a lot of FreeBSD specific material :) [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/ ] [ IrcNick : Licia ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Why crawl through windows when you can walk through a door? ] [ This user boycotts all Microsoft products and services ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message