Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:25:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Licia <licia@o-o.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition (was: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.)) Message-ID: <19990109092557.H96705@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990107213516.28105A-100000@o-o>; from Licia on Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 09:39:32PM -0600 References: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990107213516.28105A-100000@o-o>
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On Thursday, 7 January 1999 at 21:39:32 -0600, Licia wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> 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 would buy a book or set of books (3 ring bound, possibly spiral :) ) > containing the man pages (preferably all of them :) ) I would also be > interested in buying a complete nicely printed version of the handbook, > as well. The good news is that the handbook will be printed. Probably even before the 3rd edition. > Oh... I'll be buying your 3rd edition book, too :) > > If you're interested in other ideas, I'd like to see a good book on > getting started working with the FreeBSD source tree (like the Linux > Kernel Hacker's guide) I've got Mr. McKusick's wonderful red 4.4BSD > book, but it lacks a lot of FreeBSD specific material :) There's even a movement to do this one, though it's much less certain than the others. 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
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