From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 13:28:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27588 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:28:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27574 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 13:28:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #3) id 0zyhQo-000GXK-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:18:50 +0000 Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:18:49 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst 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> References: <36936F9C.33BAFF88@uk.radan.com> <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <36956DBB.B16BBF23@netshell.vicosa.com.br> <19990108192008.D1504@caamora.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990108192008.D1504@caamora.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message