From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 8 20:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA08008 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:17:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA07990 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 20:17:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-57.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.57]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA11104; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 22:13:56 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA13868; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 22:13:54 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199801090413.WAA13868@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: Jamie Bowden , FreeBSD Chat From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Book Request In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Fri, 09 Jan 1998 09:04:50 +1030." <19980109090450.36060@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 22:13:54 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? > > Andy's been the only one who had much to say on the subject. I think > they grossly miscalculated the sales of the 4.4BSD manual set, and as > a result were wary of anything called BSD. I did my part, bought the whole set of 4.4BSD books. I have about 6' of ORA books. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.