From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 8 23:39:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA24925 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 23:39:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA24918 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 23:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA28399; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:08:49 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA06226; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:08:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980109180848.44889@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:08:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: Jamie Bowden , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request References: <199801090413.WAA13868@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801090413.WAA13868@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 10:13:54PM -0600 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 10:13:54PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: >>> 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. Don't tell them that. If they think that everybody who would be interested in CFBSD had already bought the 4.4BSD books, that would definitely turn them off. Greg