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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:56:48 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net>
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: a non-original idea.


> Somehow, a dump of man pages wouldn't seem quite as sexy as a full-blown
> book with a nice, glossy cover, a full-blown tutorial, and lots of practical
> information.

It's not even an issue of `sexy'.  It's an issue of *functionality*.
Man pages work okay as references, but they are completely incapable
of teaching people how to do something.  We need `setting up a web
server with NetBSD', `setting up a NFS server with NetBSD', `running
Mac programs unders NetBSD', etc.  Tutorials are what people need.