From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 12 6:56:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C57537BB49 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 06:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA32507; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:56:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200004121356.JAA32507@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <59606.955539510@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:56:20 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: Plan to incorporate chapter 2 of the 4.4BSD book Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12-Apr-00 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:36:20 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > So now we really just need to decide where to put this beauty. >> >> Developer's Handbook. :) > > I disagree because this chapter is of incredible value to newcomers who > have no interest at all in development. In fact, when I first > approached Addison-Wesley for permission to reproduce the chapter, it > was novice end-users that I had in mind. > > Certainly, we could reference the chapter from within the Developer's > Handbook, but it's certainly not developer-centric at all. True, I'm a little developer's handbook-centric at the moment. :) Why not stick it in the Handbook then? (The non-published version of course.) > Ciao, > Sheldon. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message