tgcpwd@rc3.urc.tue.nl (Wim van Dorst) (07/16/90)
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 guess it is not THE Book (Design and Implementation, Prentice Hall, 1987 by ast), because I understood from various announcements that the new version of THE Book will accompany the arrival of Minix 2. But what is then in the referred-to book? btw. No one yet replied to my posting about cron and at/atrun. Could some guru please help me on that one too? Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim 'Blue Baron' van Dorst ----------------------------------------------------------- baron@wiesje.mug.hobby.nl and tgcpwd@urc.tue.nl -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim 'Blue Baron' van Dorst ----------------------------------------------------------- baron@wiesje.mug.hobby.nl and tgcpwd@urc.tue.nl
overby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) (07/17/90)
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 <overby@plains.nodak.edu> uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)