Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!unicorn!ogicse!plains!overby From: overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: What is in the book Keywords: the book and The Book Message-ID: <5306@plains.UUCP> Date: 16 Jul 90 17:55:00 GMT References: <1836@tuegate.tue.nl> Organization: Silo Tech, Fargo ND USA Lines: 30 In article <1836@tuegate.tue.nl> tgcpwd@rc3.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst) writes: >Hello *, > >I keep seeing references here in comp.os.minix to a 700-800 pages book >which will come with one or the other package (The 1.5, or the ST-package, >or...) What is in this book? I believe this is the wad of papers us 1.5.5 beta testers got. What I saw had 9 chapters, but I only got 3 or 4. From memory: Chapter 2 is an Excelent step-by-step installation manual, with examples (If I recall correctly, Andy has an 80M drive :-) Chapter 9 or so is a current printing of all the "man paragraphs" Chapter 10 or so contains the "extended manual" -- stuff like documentation for "as" syntax, bawk, patch (?), and other programs whose documentation takes more than one or two paragraphs. I believe there is an Appendix that contains a current source listing and Index. Andy has already stated that this manuall will NOT be distributed electronically (he's already pushing it with P-H to distribute patches free over the net). -- Glen Overby uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)