Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:19:30 -0500 From: Robert Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printed man pages Message-ID: <l0310286bb2b92039c92a@[140.228.15.35]> In-Reply-To: <19990106120352.M78349@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:08:31PM -0600 <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> <199901060108.TAA36354@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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At 8:33 PM -0500 1/5/1999, 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. Greg, I think the best compromise on this would be to eliminate most of the man pages except for things like sh and fsck that are necessary for recovery from a boot failure. The idea would be to provide enough information to get a system back to a usable state. --- Bob Beer <r-beer@onu.edu> Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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