From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 29 03:07:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA24556 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 03:07:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ami.tom.computerworks.net (root@AMI.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.95.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA24551 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 03:07:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from bonkers.taronga.com by ami.tom.computerworks.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vpXqi-0021khC; Wed, 29 Jan 97 06:06 EST Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id FAA24707; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 05:02:55 -0600 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 05:02:55 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Message-Id: <199701291102.FAA24707@bonkers.taronga.com> To: jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for the FreeBSD Book. Newsgroups: taronga.freebsd.doc In-Reply-To: <199701290936.BAA22567@superior.truenorth.org> References: Organization: none Cc: doc@freebsd.org Reply-to: peter@taronga.com Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199701290936.BAA22567@superior.truenorth.org>, Josef Grosch wrote: >Another down side to the 3-ring binder for the vendor is the ease of >copying the docs. In a past life I did a lot of work on VAX/VMS, `round the >time 4.7. At a number of sites I saw the client buy one copy of the >documentation set and allow the programmers to xerox as many copies as they >wanted. Often there were 30 or 40 copys floating around the site. Of course the way DEC treated, and still treats, the issue of decent on-line documentation made that more or less inevitable. If you were a reasonable sized site you'd have ended up spending more on the docs than you did on the operating system. In fact I just spent more on the docs for a DEC terminal server than I did for the software they documented, and that was one copy, so they're still doing it.