From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 9 06:28:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA01137 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 06:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA01091; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 06:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmb) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199801091428.GAA01091@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Book Request To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 06:28:36 -0800 (PST) Cc: grog@lemis.com, jamie@itribe.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199801090413.WAA13868@nospam.hiwaay.net> from "David Kelly" at Jan 8, 98 10:13:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text 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. between the ORA books and the addison-wesley swoosh series i must have 20 odd books. my wife always asks do you really need those? ;) jmb