From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 31 23:22: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ikhala.tcimet.net (ikhala.tcimet.net [198.109.166.215]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD08E3D0B for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 23:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dervish@localhost) by ikhala.tcimet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA62508; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:12:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dervish) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:12:05 -0500 From: bush doctor To: "Johnson, Bob" Cc: "'freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: We need more books! Message-ID: <20000131191205.A62454@ikhala.tcimet.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from BJohnson@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 03:26:55PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Out of da blue Johnson, Bob aka (BJohnson@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu) said: > My wife feels the same way when she hears me say it, > but I'd love to work on this. A co-worker of mine and I have been discussing this off and on over the past couple of months. So I'll add the obligatory us too!! At least let us know what the direction this is headed so we aren't duplicating the work. Thanxs. > > -- Bob > > Bob Johnson > Local Network Administrator > USDA - ARS - CMAVE > Gainesville, Florida > 352-374-5856 > > > >---------- > >From: James Howard[SMTP:howardjp@wam.umd.edu] > >Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 6:52 PM > >To: Josef Grosch > >Cc: Greg Lehey; Jim Mock; freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: We need more books! > > > >On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Josef Grosch wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 09:57:11AM -0500, James Howard wrote: > >> > On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > > >> > > I think it would be easier to take, say, O'Reilly's "UNIX in a > >> > > nutshell" and convert it to FreeBSD. That would mean that O'Reilly > >> > > publishes it, of course. Do we have any volunteers to do the work? > >> > > >> > I am willing to think about it. :) No really, if someoen can show me > >> > that the work would be used, I'd be game. I have "UNIX in a Nutshell" > >>and > >> > have looked to see what would be required and it doesn't look like a > >> > overwhelming amount of work. > >> > >> If one were to take sections from "Unix in a nutshell" and "Linux in a nut > >> shell" one would have a large part of it. I would be willing to work > >> sections of it. I don't believe I just said that. > > > >Yeah, I felt the same way after the previous post :) > > > >Jamie > > > > #;^) -- So ya want ta hear da roots? bush doctor Of course I run FreeBSD!! http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message