Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:25:34 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages (was: Looking for the best webmaster.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901060922050.1594-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 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.
Pages for commands to restore crashed filesystems (newsf,
disklabel, restore, etc.) sure are nice to have on paper, and
useless on disk when you _really_ need them.
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