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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:33:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Book Request
Message-ID:  <199801081332.IAA01281@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980108161826.07668@lemis.com>

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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 04:25:24PM -0800, Renaud Waldura wrote:

> 2.  I'm also the author of O'Reilly's "Porting UNIX Software".

You wrote that?  I have been meaning to buy it anyway, now I have even
more reason to do so.

> 3.  I've been trying to convince O'Reilly to publish "The Complete
>     FreeBSD" for nearly 2 years now.  So far, they have seen no reason
>     to do so.

That's a shame.  I think more stores would carry it if it were published
by O'Reilly.

> I'm copying my editor at O'Reilly, Andy Oram, on this reply.  Andy
> seems more sympathetic to the idea of a FreeBSD book than most at
> O'Reilly.  It doesn't mean that he can get up and make it happen, but
> I'm sure he'll be interested.

Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books?

-- 
Jamie Bowden
Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net

If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up.  But boggle can go.
	-Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)




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