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To: Edward Beili <edward@cpm.telrad.co.il>
cc: Peter Stubbs <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: What ever happened to... ? / new money spinner 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 1995 15:48:04 +0200."
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 06:39:14 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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I dunno, anybody interested in becoming a CD author? :-)

This is one of those labors-of-love things that you can't really even
pay somebody enough to do.  I certainly know that all of us at WC are
waaaaaaay too busy to even realistically entertain the notion right
now..  :-)

> On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Peter Stubbs wrote:
> 
> > This may not be of any help, but perhaps a new freebsd product would 
> > help? The one I have in mind is a documentation / support CD.
> > 
> > If it included the -questions archive, the handbook, the 
> > documentation project and the browsable kernel source. All in html or 
> > some other portable format, with a browser. You get the picture, 
> > setup so even a newbie could work it. Perhaps with ghostscript, 
> > chimera, xdvi etc in packages. 
> > 
> > Present it to WC ready to print, and ask for 5% of the profit for a 
> > hardware/development fund.
> > 
> > I can tell you that I'd subscribe straight away. Since I run FreeBSD
> > at home without a net link, I'd refer to it all the time. At work
> > it'd be great since I could mount it under my web page heirarchy and
> > browse at CD speed, rather that the dog slow AARNET speed here in
> > Australia.
> > 
> > This is a product I'd love to see!
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > Peter
> 
> I would like to have this too. Would it be possible, Jordan?
> Anybody from WC?
> 
> -Edward
>