One thing that keeps donaters
from giving away there money are people
who are rude in public forums!

The next thing would be a lack
of printed manuals for a good read by donaters!

Put your thinking cap on before you post next time please!
you could be costing openBSD a pile of free money!

But what do i know ?
I am just some dude in a public forum!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Spruell, Darren-Perot"

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Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Looking for general info on OpenBSD


> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Man pages drives me nuts some times!
>> its the formating of them that gets me!
>> but i will use them with a open mind.
>
> That's something you'll have to get over - UNIX without the manual pages =
1
> dumb admin.
>
>> Just seems kinds wild one of the best OS's
>> in the world has no printed Manual, ya know ?
>
> Print a manual for what purpose? The development in OpenBSD is far too
rapid
> to keep a printed manual current for more than... well... weeks to months?
> New releases bring lots of new functionality and improvement to the system.
>
> Stuff that remains static is already documented elsewhere, Design of the
4.4
> BSD blah blah and so on. Printed manuals just really have short useful
> lifetimes. man pages are searchable, printable, HTMLizable, etc.
>
> DS

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