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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:49:25 -0400
From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: root@garbled.net, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: a non-original idea.
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In-Reply-To: <199809162154.RAA26606@jekyll.piermont.com>; from Perry E. Metzger on Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 05:54:46PM -0400

On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 05:54:46PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> Have you ever seen the *full* BSD manuals?

No... What are they like?

Anyway, I still think a "practical guide to NetBSD"-type book would be
ideal for our purposes. Perhaps including full BSD manuals would be
a good thing, though... <shrug> Where can I find them, to look at them?

There are lots of not-straight-BSD things that ought to be covered in
our book, of course... For instance, XFree86 and X on non-Intel NetBSD
platforms would be worth covering.

-- 
Mason Loring Bliss..mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us..acheron.dyn.ml.org/mason
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
  dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;