From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 6 01:50:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15714 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 01:50:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA15683 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 01:50:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 22209 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Jan 1999 08:39:37 -0000 Message-ID: <19990106083937.22208.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:39:36 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Greg Lehey 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> In-reply-to: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> of Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:03:53 +1030 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 loathe the presence of the man pages in the book -- they have made it far less useful than it would otherwise have been, because it's just too damn big to manage in one hand while I juggle six keyboards and mice while trying to find out why something didn't happen the way I wanted. If a new edition came out without the man pages, I might even buy it and toss the one I have now. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message