From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 18:27:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26644 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:27:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guepardo.vicosa.com.br (guepardo.tdnet.com.br [200.236.148.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA26638 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br) Received: from netshell.vicosa.com.br [200.236.148.195] by guepardo.vicosa.com.br with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.03) id ABCB166500C4; Tue, 05 Jan 1999 23:34:51 +03d00 Message-ID: <3692C952.148A6E4@netshell.vicosa.com.br> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:24:18 -0200 From: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) References: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. You are right, without the man pages in the book, the one will go on to be as great as it is now. If you allow me some suggest: what about a chapter covering NIS, AutoMount util? More security concepts would be very, very nice too. This is my humble opnion about that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message