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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Documentation project (was Re: Slight flame from Linux user) Date: 7 Jun 1995 10:23:52 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3r3uno$q1k@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3r1qum$1l7@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3r20g7$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com> <3r29g0$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3r29g0$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> wrote: >> There is, however, a need for high-quality, PRINTED documentation -- >> something that doesn't require power, hardware, or a LAN/WWW connection >> to use. Yes, I know that I can print out the HTML docs, but I want The original intention, at least from my perspective, was to have all the doc _sources_ in SGML but provide preformatted version in ASCII, Postscript and HTML in /usr/share/doc/<fmt>. Users low on space could either not load these or delete them and re-make only the formats of interest to them. This will happen at some point soon, but things are sort of slow on that front while most of us struggle through Release Hell(tm). > To emphasize this, I'd like to point out that there are a number of >books on Linux out there, and very few (none?) on FreeBSD. I live None, I'm afraid! I'm on the hook to write one, and write one I shall once I'm finished with the 2.0.5/2.1 release-generation process and can actually make some time for it.. Sigh.. Jordan