From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 11:01:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08294 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:01:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA08269 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:01:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 3495 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Jan 1999 10:52:21 -0000 Message-ID: <19990108105221.3494.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 20:52:20 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Greg Lehey Cc: 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> In-reply-to: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> of Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:52:05 +1030 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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?''. There are two issues here: what should be in the main book and is there a call for a man pages book? I'd be happy to see the man pages for those very few programs that you might have to run when the man pages really were not available on line remain in the main book -- e.g., BSDI devote about 60 pages for this purpose and that seems more than enough. I'd buy the 3rd edition to replace my 2nd edition if it was cut down to something like that. Because I have the O'Reilly set of 4.4 manuals, and because I'd always have other machines at hand with man pages on line, I would never buy another man pages book; but people who don't have these resources should buy them -- provided it's *all* the man pages, not just some big selection. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message