Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 00:18:46 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Plan to incorporate chapter 2 of the 4.4BSD book Message-ID: <38F004A6.146EF2C1@mail.ptd.net> References: <11945.955110594@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:53:06 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > I'm in communication with the editor of the 4.4BSD book (McKusick et al) > > about the possibility of publishing chapter 2 (Design Overview) as part > > of the FreeBSD online handbook. > > Right, we have go-ahead from Addison-Wesley to incorporate the chapter > into our www distro, provided that mirrors do not mess with the blurb > that describes that the text is "excerpted with permission". Also, this > is with the understanding that the www distro is _not_ distributed on > CDROM. > > The original idea of incorporating this into the Handbook is obviously > not appropriate, since the handbook is dsitrbuted on CDROM. How about keeping it physically outside the handbook (and CVS, since presumably it won't be changed), somewhere on a freebsd server, and having the appropriate places in the handbook link to it? This way it could be logically part of the handbook, but not be distributed with it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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