Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:03:53 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: James Moore <jmmoore@ballistic.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:08:31PM -0600 References: <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Tuesday, 5 January 1999 at 19:08:31 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Wolfram Schneider writes: >> On 1999-01-05 14:32:27 -0600, James Moore wrote: > [...] >> You need a postscript printer to print the manpages. >> >> FreeBSD has more than 1400 manpages. If you print them all >> you need more than 3000-4000 pages paper. >> >> You can download the FreeBSD manpages from >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/manpages/ > > Most of the manpages are printed in Greg Lehey's book, "The Complete > FreeBSD". Book is cheaper than the paper and toner required to print > the manpages. See http://www.cdrom.com/ The general consensus is that the man pages are a waste of space, and they make the book too heavy. The next edition won't have them. If anybody has strong feelings about this, please let me know. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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