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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

>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.

I have damn strong feelings about this. 

If you think that I am going to stand idly by and let you remove 500 pages
of man pages then so be it. Woohoo! Now FreeBSD is accessible to people
with lower back problems.

Maybe you don't weigh less than a duck after all. :)

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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