From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: A paper manual
Date: 09 Oct 1998 14:03:38 -700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3g1cx78id.fsf@chub.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Alan Shutko's message of "09 Oct 1998 10:35:23 -0500"
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
> >>>>> "K" == Karel Sprenger <ks@ic.uva.nl> writes:
>
> K> I'd buy one if it were less heavy than the single-sided printed
> K> manual :-) It certainly deserves a proper book! Wouldn't O'Reilly
> K> be interested? Or is that not a "proper" organization?
>
> I seem to recall that O'Reilly said that sales of GPLed books really
> weren't that much last time they tried it, and they weren't
> interested. But the FSF does have printing connections for their
> various printerd manuals.. maybe check with whoever's in charge of
> those?
Count me in, even if it gets out of date pretty fast. (esp. with all
the miming going on) Still many things remain the same or similar. I
still use a refcard based on 5.4.56. an antique, but more is still in
use than not in use, by a good margin.
--
Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com
Running Redhat Linux-5.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-09 21:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-09 10:52 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-09 11:15 ` Kai Haberzettl
1998-10-09 11:38 ` Jes Sorensen
1998-10-09 12:24 ` Norman Walsh
1998-10-09 13:12 ` William M. Perry
1998-10-10 23:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-23 21:45 ` William Perry
1998-10-24 5:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-28 18:18 ` William M. Perry
1998-10-29 11:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-09 13:19 ` Karel Sprenger
1998-10-09 15:35 ` Alan Shutko
1998-10-09 21:03 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
1998-10-10 23:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-11 14:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-10-09 22:04 ` Jeremy D. Zawodny
1998-10-09 22:20 ` Jeremy D. Zawodny
1998-10-10 5:25 ` David Hedbor
1998-10-11 19:09 ` SL Baur
1998-10-13 4:11 ` Chris Tessone
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