Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 09:53:27 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEACDEA4@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> ---------- > 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
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