From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 17 18:10:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5017814F54 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:10:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 20768 invoked from network); 18 Dec 1999 02:10:42 -0000 Received: from userbf27.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.142.48) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 1999 02:10:42 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id CAA01068; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 02:10:37 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 02:10:37 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Brett Glass Cc: Andrew Boothman , chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org Subject: Re: Porting Unix Software Message-ID: <19991218021037.A323@marder-1> References: <4.2.0.58.19991217174521.03d8d8c0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991217174521.03d8d8c0@localhost> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 05:46:04PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:12 PM 12/17/1999 , Andrew Boothman wrote: > >Hi! > > > >I've been asked if there is any books that I'd like for Christmas, and after a > >look around Amazon, I wondered if any one has any experience with the O'Reilly > >book "Porting Unix Software" by our very own Greg Lehey. > > > >The date of publication is June 1995, so I wonder if it still has any > >worthwhile relevence to porting Applications to FreeBSD today. > > > >Any opinions would be appricated, especially Greg's! :-) > > I'm sure that Greg will say that it's a horrible book and that > you should disregard all of the information in it. ;-) > Mr. Glass, you have a wicked sense of humour. > --Brett Glass > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message