cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (04/10/90)
For those of you whom would like to get printed documents for many of the software packages available via USENET, I have put together a troff formatted 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 manual set containing all of the following: Manual 1: The user's/programmer's reference Manual (416 pages) 1. Introduction and permuted index (16 pages) 2. The following manual pages: (400 pages) a2p.1 cpr.1 listalias.1 perl.1 rnmail.1 afio.1 diffc.1 matches.1 pnews.1 rz.1 answer.1 diskhog.1 mcc.1 postnews.1 s2p.1 autoreply.1 dviselect.1 merge.1 printmail.1 sz.1 btoa.1 elm.1 messages.1 rcs-intro.1 texi2roff.1 bytesplit.1 fastmail.1 minirb.1 rcs.1 undump.1 cdecl.1 filter.1 modem_break.1 rcsclean.1 vnews.1 cfman.1 frm.1 mush.1 rcsdiff.1 waitfor.1 checkalias.1 gcc.1 newalias.1 rcsfreeze.1 which.1 checknews.1 grep.1 newmail.1 rcsmerge.1 wnewmail.1 ci.1 ident.1 newsetup.1 readmsg.1 zcmp.1 co.1 inews.1 newsgroups.1 readnews.1 zless.1 compress.1 less.1 patch.1 rlog.1 zmore.1 compressdir.1 lesskey.1 pcomm.1 rn.1 ftw.3 getdate.3 scanargs.3 scandir.3 news-b.5 news.5 newsrc.5 rcsfile.5 mn.7 dcheck.8 inews.8 nohog.8 recnews.8 sendnews.8 expire-b.8 newsaux.8 pathalias.8 relaynews.8 uurec.8 expire.8 newsbatch.8 pexpire-b.8 rnews.8 fsanalyze.8 newsmail.8 pexpire.8 sendbatch.8 Manual 2: The user's/programmer's reference guide (596 pages) 1. B News: Copyright, How To Read the Network News, Installation guide, How to use Usenet Effectively, Usenet Messages standard 2. C News: Installation, The Interface Between C News and the Outside World 3. Elm: User guide, Reference guide, Config guide, Alias Users guide, Filter System guide, Forms Mode Guide 4. GNU: gnu-cpp, gnu-cc, gnu-gdb, gnu-make gnu-tar 5. Pcomm: Pcomm Reference Manual 6. RCS: Design paper, Functions of RCS This was all printed using eroff (a third party DWB package for 386/ix that includes HPlaserjet and postscript support) on a Panasonic Laser Partner. I have spent about 60 hours (and a full box of paper) going over all the documentation to ensure that it formatted correctly for the reduced size printing. (BTW-Someone asked if I really printed all 200,000 pages on my laser printer - the answer is no way jose. I just printed the original and had the printer do the replicating) The price, including shipping, is as follows: Virginia Continental Hawii/Alaska US Canada Manual set $42.60 $41.00 $46.50 Manual set with binders $55.64 $53.50 $59.00 Please note that this pricing is only "cost-recovery" pricing. We are not making any profit on the deal. To order a copy: Send a check, money order, whatever to Virtual Technologies Inc. 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling VA 22170. Make sure you include the following: 1. the check/money order made out to Virtual Technologies 2. Your street address (UPS will not deliver to a pobox) 3. Your uucp mail address in case I need to get in touch with you. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170
donlash@uncle.UUCP (Donald Lashomb) (04/12/90)
Conor has done an excellent job on these USENET manuals - about 3 inches thick of man pages in the same style as your Unix manuals, thumb tabs and all. (no binder tho :-) I got mine from him awhile ago and am very pleased. I encourage all net-types to get a set. BTW- I have no connection with Conor or Virtual Tech, just a satisfied custommer. -Don donlash@uncle.UUCP