Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:30:20 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <19990108193020.E1504@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990107213516.28105A-100000@o-o>; from Licia on Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 09:39:32PM -0600 References: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990107213516.28105A-100000@o-o>
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On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 09:39:32PM -0600, Licia wrote: > 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?''. > > 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 :) 3 d-ring would be really really nice, very easy to turn pages and to lay flat ont eh table, and all those other things that make a book a good reading experience .. unlike the perfectbind on paperbacks .. most "computer books" are really far to big to be concidered for anyting other than real hard cover binding, or 3 d-ring .. sorry that is my personal hobby horse. > 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 :) me too .. also, i recently asked about the 4.4 bsd series by o'riely and was told that they are out of print and o'reily won't be doing another print run. drats just when i could nearly afford teh set. thats life i suppose. cheers jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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