Re: OT - Book(s) idea

From: Sam Munzani (sam@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2000 - 12:19:32 GMT-3


   
If you come up with one or find one I will buy it. Please forward me
info. about it on where to buy and how much.

Palm is definately way to go rather than carrying a book around.

Sam

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Victor Kasacavage wrote:

> If you want to make it really useful, release a version for the palm
> pilot.....then you wouldn't have to worry about carrying around a bunch of
> little books, just look it up on the palm. You can also get a terminal
> emulator for the palm and cables to connect to the console, who needs to
> carry around a bulky laptop anyway. btw, does anyone have the Cisco ios
> command reference for the palm?
>
> Victor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Munzani" <sam@chinet.com>
> To: "Keith Kruepke" <inbox@kruepke.com>
> Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:23 AM
> Subject: Re: OT - Book(s) idea
>
>
> > Definately good idea. A lot of times I have to support people while I am
> > not in front of a router or even a computer and have to support them for
> > command lines. I would buy one of those if you publish it.
> >
> > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Keith Kruepke wrote:
> >
> > > Group members,
> > >
> > > My friend Paul Cernick (who is also a member of this list) and I are
> talking with O'Reilly and Associates about the possibility of publishing a
> series of Cisco-related pocket references. We are trying to determine
> whether or not these pocket references would be a good idea. O'Reilly's
> current pocket references are about 7"x4" in size and get up to ~100 pages.
> They are very handy for carrying information with you, wherever you may be
> working any given day.
> > >
> > > Initially, we were thinking of focusing on routing protocols, such as
> pocket references about BGP, OSPF, IGRP/EIGRP, etc. They would cover the
> configuration commands related to each routing protocol, with a goal similar
> to that of the Cisco command references, but we would write the descriptions
> ourselves. Of course, the books would also be smaller and portable, and
> each one would have a more limited focus.
> > >
> > > Because this mailing list is such a great resource for reaching those
> who work with Cisco equipment, we thought it would be worthwhile to poll it
> for opinions. We are interested in finding out what people think of this
> idea. We would appreciate feedback about who would be interested in such
> books and even which topics would be of interest.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for sharing your opinions.
> > >
> > > Keith Kruepke
> > >



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