Hi,

TRUNASUCI TRUNASUCI wrote on Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:01:03AM -0400:

> I just wanna ask if there is a project for this official refernce book
> for all users ( if any please inform ).

The official OpenBSD reference consists of the man(1) pages.
For getting started, type "man help", then follow the pointers
given in the first four paragraphs, then follow the pointers
given there.

> Since i cant find any kind of like this on openbsd web.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi

> I love to have or if any handbook like this in PDF,
> so i can download it, and use/read it anywhere.

You might use some cheap, old notebook, install OpenBSD on it,
and read it on the screen.  As a bonus, you can experiment with
the commands and functions while reading.

If you must have some parts of it as PDF or printed out,
you can always use commands like these:

  $ mandoc -Tpdf `man -w ksh` > ksh.pdf
  $ mandoc -Tps `man -w ksh` | lpr

Or even something like:

  $ cd /usr/share/man/
  $ sudo mkdir pdf1
  $ sudo chown $USER:users pdf1
  $ cd man1
  $ for f in *.1; do mandoc -Tpdf $f > ../pdf1/${f%1}pdf; done

On my notebook, the loop takes 15 seconds to complete, and that's
the whole user commands section of the reference manual...

> So do we have it? if not, is there any plan to do it?

Some people have made plans to produce printed copies of the
manuals, but nobody actually ever did it.  Probably because
the electronic version is indeed more useful than a printed
copy, doesn't get outdated as easily, and is cheaper.

Yours,
  Ingo

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