From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 8 14:56:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07700 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:56:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07694 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA28739; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:25:49 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA03015; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:25:57 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:25:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Licia 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> References: <19990108125205.J92409@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Licia on Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 09:39:32PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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