From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 00:46:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23996 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:46:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23986 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02287; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:46:03 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990108194602.F1504@caamora.com.au> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:46:02 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>; <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Robert Beer on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:19:30AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:19:30AM -0500, Robert Beer wrote: > At 8:33 PM -0500 1/5/1999, 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. If > >anybody has strong feelings about this, please let me know. > > I think the best compromise on this would be to eliminate most of the > man pages except for things like sh and fsck that are necessary for > recovery from a boot failure. The idea would be to provide enough > information to get a system back to a usable state. yup, this sounds really good to me .. like the other suggestion, 'esential manpages', by one of teh other participants. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message