Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:52:30 -0500 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, James Moore <jmmoore@ballistic.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <3692CFEE.3AA5@echidna.com> References: <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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. I love 'em - great for reading in bed or on public transport! In some cases, it's really hard to understand the on-screen versions, what with scrolling back and forth between the command list, option explanations, examples, notes, etc. (take man tar or man ftp for instance). OTOH, I recognize that they make the book unmanageable. I'd rather have more handbook text, without the man pages - except, I think it might be good to retain man pages for a selected few commands, like disklabel and newfs for instance, for those occasions when you don't have a system with which to see the online versions. Meantime, I'll be giving TLC to my second edition. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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