From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jan 20 11:56:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA15988 for doc-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 11:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA15980 Sat, 20 Jan 1996 11:56:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Sat, 20 Jan 96 17:11 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA20327; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:12:14 +0100 Message-Id: <199601201712.SAA20327@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: What printed documentation do we need? To: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers), doc@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Documenters) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:12:13 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'm currently in the process of formatting the FreeBSD man pages for printing, and it's evident that there's a lot of stuff missing. In particular: 1. For the most part, the user's guide stuff supplied with the system is so out-of-date that it's not worth printing. This stuff is available from O'Reilly already, including a number of files we're not allowed to distribute. 2. There's a *lot* of documentation. The man pages alone come to over 3000 pages. 3. There's a lot of stuff in source form. At a guess, I'd say that it would be easy enough to produce 10,000 pages of supplementary documentation from the other sources. I don't think this is a particularly Good Idea. So, the question: which other documentation should be in paper form? For a gut feel, I'd say we could handle another 1500 to 2000 pages. Greg