Hi there, though Ingo's advice is just perfect, right to the point, I'd like to add that depending on one's personal approach Michael Luca's "Absolute OpenBSD. 2nd Edition!" might be another way to get aquainted to OpenBSD.http://www.openbsd.org/books.html#book10 Cheers,STEFAN Gesendet: Mittwoch, 08. Mai 2013 um 10:33 Uhr Von: "Ingo Schwarze" <[email protected]> An: "TRUNASUCI TRUNASUCI" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: OpenBSD official reference book ( like FreeBSD handbook / NetBSD Guide )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 Probably because the electronic version is indeed more useful than a printed copy, doesn't get outdated as easily, and is cheaper.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
