From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 18:51:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29371 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:51:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hera.webcom.com (hera.webcom.com [209.1.28.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29365 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hera.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA30977; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 18:50:58 -0800 Received: from [204.143.69.51] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 25236319; Tue Jan 05 18:48 PST 1999 Message-Id: <3692CFEE.3AA5@echidna.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:52:30 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: David Kelly , James Moore , 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: > > 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