From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17674 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A paper manual Date: 09 Oct 1998 14:03:38 -700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <3.0.3.32.19981009151938.009896b0@ic.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156333 2167 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10739 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:07:30 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAF14051; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 09 Oct 1998 16:07:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05597 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:07:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.impulse.net (mail.impulse.net [204.188.6.10]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA10725 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21719 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 1998 21:06:58 -0000 Original-Received: from sb1-77.impulse.net (HELO chub.local) (204.188.6.77) by mail.impulse.net with SMTP; 9 Oct 1998 21:06:58 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by chub.local (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA02035; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 14:03:39 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Alan Shutko's message of "09 Oct 1998 10:35:23 -0500" Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070033 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.33) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17674 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17674 Alan Shutko writes: > >>>>> "K" == Karel Sprenger 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