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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:58:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ryan Hennig <rhennig@cs.washington.edu>
To: UW Linux Group <linux@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Linux O'Reilly books
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> The Unix CD bookshelf has the full text and code on the CD.  Anyone know if
> they included a search engine on that one?  The search engine on the Perl
> bookshelf CD is very useful, especially for finding tidbits in the Perl
> Cookbook.

I have both bookshelves at work, and the Unix one does have a search
service.

> (Why don't they freakin' include the freakin' FAQs and man pages on the
> freakin' searchable CDs?  That's what I want to know.  Gonna have to make my
> own CD and indexed search engine.  Yes.)  (OK, not much of an issue with a
> continuous Internet connection.  But some of the books are fun to search.
> Exploring Java, Perl Cookbook, Unix Powertools...  Whatever.)

I agree, they should have included that stuff in the PCDB. With the UCDB,
however, the problem is that each flavor of unix (from what I see at work)
has its own man pages, and many times a system will have multiple versions
of the same binary, with different manpages for each one.
  
They would either have to include a version of each platform's page, or
create a merged page with information on how each option worked
differently on each flavor of unix. If I was putting together the UCDB, I
would probably just forget it, and let the user run man. =)

Ryan

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