From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Apr 7 8:42:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AC737B581 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05560; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:41:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200004071541.LAA05560@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <11945.955110594@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 11:41:59 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: Plan to incorporate chapter 2 of the 4.4BSD book Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 07-Apr-00 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:53:06 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >> I'm in communication with the editor of the 4.4BSD book (McKusick et al) >> about the possibility of publishing chapter 2 (Design Overview) as part >> of the FreeBSD online handbook. > > Right, we have go-ahead from Addison-Wesley to incorporate the chapter > into our www distro, provided that mirrors do not mess with the blurb > that describes that the text is "excerpted with permission". Also, this > is with the understanding that the www distro is _not_ distributed on > CDROM. Hmm, currently we put out the entire CVS repo on the CD's, including the www distro. > The original idea of incorporating this into the Handbook is obviously > not appropriate, since the handbook is dsitrbuted on CDROM. > > Addison-Wesley would like a list of our .freebsd.org www mirrors. Where > can I find such a thing? :-) > > I have the troff sources for the chapter from Kirk, and am busy > familiarizing myself with DocBook so that I can transcribe the text into > the sgml form that we'll need it in. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message