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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:18:49 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.))
Message-ID:  <19990108191849.A63511@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <19990108192008.D1504@caamora.com.au>
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jonathan michaels wrote:

> my apologies if this is too harch to cope with, but thier are people in this 
> world who have reasons to use books, and not all because they cannot use teh 
> cheap monitors that are being supplied these days.

I partly agree with this. If there's a lot of stuff I want to learn, a
book is nice, which is why I've just bought the Camel book. On the other
hand, there doesn't seem much point digging around for a book[1], looking
through it for the right page, etc, when "man foo" will tell you quick
answers much faster.

--
[1] on my desk, that part would take the longest, I assure you
-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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