From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 10 06:53:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10816 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 06:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (cagw2.att.com [192.128.52.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA10806 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 06:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by cagw2.att.com; Fri Apr 10 09:49 EDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by caig2.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id JAA07572 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id <2MVXB9PR>; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:53:29 -0400 Message-ID: To: Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:53:27 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > From: Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr[SMTP:Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr] > > According to sbabkin@dcn.att.com: > > > of money to buy the same but worse ? What would I like to > > buy is the manual that will describe how to use this and that > > and why is it implemented in that way and not another. > > What you want then is the BSD 4.4 internals by McKusick et al. > If I remember correctly, it's printed by Addison Wesley. > It's the definitive book on the matter. I bought this, not the > ORA manpages :-) > Yes, I bought this too :-) But it's actually somewhat different. I would suggest looking at HP or _old_ SCO set of manuals to get the idea of what I meant. Actually, O'Reilly has very good books on many parts of Unix systems, and I think that the manual on BSD that would have big success (provided that BSDI does not have good manuals also) should be composed of chapters, each representing a full O'Reilly book cut to most essential and BSD-specific part plus chapters for thing not covered by existing books. This will also promote the buyers of BSD manuals to buy the full books for more detailed descriptions :-) May be Greg Lehey can pass this idea to O'Reilly ? Serge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message