From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 8 05:33:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA14873 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 05:33:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA14864 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 05:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:33:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request In-Reply-To: <19980108161826.07668@lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 04:25:24PM -0800, Renaud Waldura wrote: > 2. I'm also the author of O'Reilly's "Porting UNIX Software". You wrote that? I have been meaning to buy it anyway, now I have even more reason to do so. > 3. I've been trying to convince O'Reilly to publish "The Complete > FreeBSD" for nearly 2 years now. So far, they have seen no reason > to do so. That's a shame. I think more stores would carry it if it were published by O'Reilly. > I'm copying my editor at O'Reilly, Andy Oram, on this reply. Andy > seems more sympathetic to the idea of a FreeBSD book than most at > O'Reilly. It doesn't mean that he can get up and make it happen, but > I'm sure he'll be interested. Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)