Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:46:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printed man pages (was: "The Complete FreeBSD", THIRD edition: question) Message-ID: <19990308134640.G490@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990306234315.A73380@drwho.xnet.com>; from Michael Maxwell on Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 11:43:15PM -0600 References: <19990306010220.55BEF1528C@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.3.96.990306060435.8042A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> <19990307102038.L490@lemis.com> <19990306234315.A73380@drwho.xnet.com>
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On Saturday, 6 March 1999 at 23:43:15 -0600, Michael Maxwell wrote: > 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? There's a chance. Walnut Creek is investigating the possibility of cheaper techniques to print small book runs. I'd like to hear from people who would be interested in buying a "man pages" book, something like the ones that O'Reilly did for 4.4BSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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