From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 17:13:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18050 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 17:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17866 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 17:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA24577; Sat, 9 May 1998 09:41:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980509094132.S12200@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 09:41:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Schwenk , Andrew Short Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly Book. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Peter Schwenk on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 02:08:36PM -0400 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 Fri, 8 May 1998 at 14:08:36 -0400, Peter Schwenk wrote: > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Andrew Short wrote: > >> >> Someone on here mentioned a FreeBSD book by O'Reilly. If they publish one >> I definitely want to buy it, but I havent been able to locate it on their >> web site. >> >> HAS it been published or is it just "in the works?"??? > > O'Reilly published books on the 4.4BSD UNIX (from which FreeBSD is > derived), so they do apply. I think they stopped printing them though. The 4.4BSD manuals sold very badly. That's one of the reasons they didn't want to publish the FreeBSD book for so long. Don't expect to see them again in a hurry. Greg -- See complete headers for address 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