From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 20:03:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18396 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tribunal.seqlogic.com (ip121.birmingham5.mi.pub-ip.psi.net [38.27.102.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18388 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:03:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thesequence@seqlogic.com) Received: from spaceball1 ([10.0.0.3]) by tribunal.seqlogic.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA09519; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 23:05:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from thesequence@seqlogic.com) Message-ID: <04ad01bdf97a$377ce420$0300000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com> Reply-To: "The Sequence" From: "The Sequence" To: "Robert Huff" , Subject: Re: "The Complete FreeBSD", first edition: errata and addenda Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:59:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm all for that.... hell of a lot easier..... Hell why even ship it out.... Just print it out from some ps files or from web pages or something that you download..... -=The Sequence=- -----Original Message----- From: Robert Huff To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 21:57 Subject: "The Complete FreeBSD", first edition: errata and addenda > >Greg Lehey writes: > >> The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you >> can a web page or any other online documentation. > > Sure you can - IBM did it all the time back when paper >documentation was _it_. It does increase the cost. > Instead of binding the pages, print them on 3-hole paper and >distribute in a 3 ring binder. Publish errata over the net, and a >paper update every time the minor version changes (3.0 -> 3.1). > Yes, I know why this isn't done; but I also know that it can >be. > > > Robert Huff > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message