From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 09:14:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21792 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [205.181.251.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21787 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:14:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA05998; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:12:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 12:12:13 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mark Ovens , walton@nordicdms.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <19990108121212.A5891@emu.sourcee.com> References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 12:52:05PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 12:52:05PM +1030, 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. > > >> 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?''. I wouldn't buy one -- I purchase many copies. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > 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