From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 00:13:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20563 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:13:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20558 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zyX29-0000lU-00; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:12:42 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA01865; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:12:04 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02313; Fri, 8 Jan 99 08:12:03 GMT Message-Id: <3695BDCA.DF6317A2@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 08:11:54 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: 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 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. > FWIW, I would suggest that large HD's (multi-GB), LBA, the infamous 1024 cyl limit etc. are addressed. e.g. that you can install FreeBSD above 1024 cyls on an (E)IDE disk using LBA and on SCSI if you boot from the first partition with a boot mangler. The partition schemes in the book only cover small disks IIRC. > >> 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?''. It would be a good idea, especially if WC offered the 2 books as a bundle at a decent saving over the 2 separate books. It would certainly make CFBSD easy to handle ;-) > > 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 -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message