Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 23:43:15 -0600 From: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "The Complete FreeBSD", THIRD edition: question Message-ID: <19990306234315.A73380@drwho.xnet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990307102038.L490@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:20:38AM %2B1030 References: <19990306010220.55BEF1528C@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.3.96.990306060435.8042A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> <19990307102038.L490@lemis.com>
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On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:20:38AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 6:07:06 -0500, Thomas Good wrote:
> > Greg - Forgive me if I've missed a posting...has it been resolved
> > whether you will be separating the man pages from the install & conf
> > portion of your forthcoming 3E?
>
> Pretty much. Most man pages will go, but I'll leave a few behind,
> those which would be of help if your system is down and won't come up.
Then I certainly hope the cost of the book will be significantly less than
the previous releases, due to the missing manpages. At least 70% of the
reason I bought the book in the first place was because of the nicely
printed man pages.
Is there any chance that you might consider releasing the manpages in a
second volume?
--
Michael Maxwell <drwho @ xnet.com> | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/
"American Justice: oxymoron. William J. Clinton: moron."
--M. Maxwell (1999)
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