From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 19:17: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B5D14CB8 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 19:17:01 -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 NAA26962; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:46:42 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA14194; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:46:41 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990308134640.G490@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:46:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael Maxwell , FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printed man pages (was: "The Complete FreeBSD", THIRD edition: question) References: <19990306010220.55BEF1528C@hub.freebsd.org> <19990307102038.L490@lemis.com> <19990306234315.A73380@drwho.xnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990306234315.A73380@drwho.xnet.com>; from Michael Maxwell on Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 11:43:15PM -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 Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 23:43:15 -0600, Michael Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:20:38AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 6:07:06 -0500, Thomas Good wrote: >>> Greg - Forgive me if I've missed a posting...has it been resolved >>> whether you will be separating the man pages from the install & conf >>> portion of your forthcoming 3E? >> >> Pretty much. Most man pages will go, but I'll leave a few behind, >> those which would be of help if your system is down and won't come up. > > Then I certainly hope the cost of the book will be significantly less than > the previous releases, due to the missing manpages. At least 70% of the > reason I bought the book in the first place was because of the nicely > printed man pages. > > Is there any chance that you might consider releasing the manpages in a > second volume? There's a chance. Walnut Creek is investigating the possibility of cheaper techniques to print small book runs. I'd like to hear from people who would be interested in buying a "man pages" book, something like the ones that O'Reilly did for 4.4BSD. 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