From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 8 21:19:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail1.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2211737B5FB for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 21:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 29699 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2000 04:19:27 -0000 Received: from du69.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.69) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 9 Apr 2000 04:19:27 -0000 Message-ID: <38F004A6.146EF2C1@mail.ptd.net> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 00:18:46 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Plan to incorporate chapter 2 of the 4.4BSD book References: <11945.955110594@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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