From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 9 05:24:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA18996 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 05:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id FAA18986 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 05:24:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199801091323.IAA07236@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:25:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Book Request In-Reply-To: <19980109090450.36060@lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey 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. > > Greg > Maybe if they had done more then just print out and bind the man pages, more copies would have sold. -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)