lsk@fortune.UUCP (Lsk Katz) (10/08/84)
Mon Oct 8 13:02:30 PDT 1984 PLEASE POST PLEASE POST USENIX 4.2BSD Manuals: Status Report As announced in the April 1984 issue of ;login: (Vol. 9, No. 2), USENIX has sponsored the printing of 4.2BSD manuals for 1984 Institutional and Sup- porting Members of USENIX holding a 4.2BSD source license. A description of the layout and format of the manuals as well as an order form was included in the original ;login: announcement, and order forms were sent to all recipients of the 4.2BSD distribution tapes as well. On July 3rd, after waiting approxi- mately 30 days for orders to accumulate, the printer was told to reproduce the following quantities of manuals: User's Manuals 5,000 Programmer's Manual 5,000 System Manager's Manuals 1,800 It was planned that this quantity of manuals would prove sufficient to fill all orders generated over the next 3-4 month period. Little did we real- ize how popular these manuals would prove to be! As of September 10th the following orders had been received and processed: User's Manuals 5,900 Programmer's Manuals 4,800 System Manager's Manuals 2,000 Thus the original printing run is completely sold out of the User's and System Manager's Manuals, and only a few sets of the Programmer's Manuals are left. We have negotiated with the printer to make another printing run in order to fill the backlog of outstanding orders and to provide a supply of manuals for future orders that are received during the next few months. As stated in the original ;login: announcement, it is uncertain how long manuals will be available for. If your site is interested in manuals and has not already ordered, you are encouraged to do so promply. An order form may be requested from the USENIX office (415-528-8649). Incidently, we have received many positive comments concerning the new manual layout and format. Thanks are due Sam Leffler of Lucasfilm and Mike Karels of the University of California, Berkeley for their hard work at organ- izing the manual sections and producing the typeset masters for the printer. John Lassetter, also of Lucasfilm, did the cover design. ------- End of Forwarded Message
dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (10/31/84)
/***** rna:net.unix / rnb!dan / 11:57 am Oct 31, 1984*/ Hi, I think the manuals are great too. But I haven't seen any mention of the omissions (i.e. missing pages). If a new printing is to be done, the missing pages as well as the errors should be fixed. At least in the copies I have received the first page of grep(1) and mkdir(1) are missing. There may be others, but I haven't thoroughly looked. I also agree that some sort of title or other marker on the binding is required as it is very difficult to distinguish one manual from another. Cheers, Dan /* ---------- */