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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Documentation project (was Re: Slight flame from Linux user) Date: 17 Jun 1995 00:25:19 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3rt3sv$pij@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3rnmjc$fde@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3roj57$l5s@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3rqdbg$q1u@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <DAA2IF.EpA@midway.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu> writes: >Out of curiosity, Tim old salt, have you ever read a book >authored by more than one person? "The C Programming >Language?" I believe this book was in fact written by Kernighan, with technical input from Ritchie, who was of course the creator of C. However, I think collaboration between 2 or 3 authors is quite different from a work in which each chapter (and even each section) is independently contributed by different authors. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The FreeBSD "handbook" is certainly not very readable at the moment. Let us hope it becomes so. If it does, I shall be the first to say so. I'm not interested in FreeBSD vs Linux battles. I've installed Free BSD on my machine, alongside Linux, and I just wish the former were better documented. Linux is years ahead in this area, at least. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland