From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 23 12:37:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA14882 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:37:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA14874 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:37:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA28443; Tue, 23 Jan 96 14:37:49 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA07363; Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:37:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:37:48 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9601232037.AA07363@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: akyol@wireless.stanford.edu Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Bora Akyol on Tue, 23 Jan 1996 11:34:45 -0800 (PST)) Subject: Re: What printed documentation do we need? Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Bora" == Bora Akyol writes: Bora> By the way, How complete are the O'reilly books that are on Bora> 4.4BSD. I browsed through and thought that they were mostly Bora> man pages. I am thinking about buying them but do not know Bora> if it's worth it. A lot of people think it's nice to have all the man pages printed nicely and bound together. I'd be one of them if I had money up the wazoo, which I don't. However, I do recommend at least one of the books from the series: 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley 1st Edition June 1994 ISBN: 1-56592-080-5 804 pages, $30.00 (US) and if you're feeling particularly rich, then get these other two: 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley 1st Edition July 1994 ISBN: 1-56592-076-7 712 pages, $30.00 (US) and 4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents By Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley 1st Edition July 1994 ISBN: 1-56592-079-1 596 pages, $30.00 (US) You'll find a lot more papers/articles than man pages in these. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?" -- Jack Handey