Actually the Nutshell books are great. "Cisco IOS in a Nutshell" I can go for that. Aren't they the ones that also do *the* Sendmail book? I have never thought much of the Cisco classes, but that is a personal preference I suppose, most of the people I know who still use IPX are very happy with it. Then again, I don't hear many people talking about the future of IPX anymore. -Deepak. On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Michael Vallee wrote:

This is actually a very good idea. Someone should talk to Tim O'Rielly at ORA.COM about this. They are the "Nutshell Book" folks, and do a great job on other books in this area.

We need to recommend an author. Any volunteers?

Mike Vallee Vaultline Inc. mike@vaultline.net 408 364 9056

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(Assuming this hasn't already been done and I am the one that is uninformed)

Has anyone though of how much money some publisher could make with a Cisco for Dummies<tm> book? Say it runs $49.95 and is 2000 pages. It has every obscure use of every command in say the IP IOS or Netflow Switching or everything Cisco makes [depending on size here] It strikes me that the UniversCD and the bound/hard copy manuals [including the ones from the classes] are not all that useful unless you remember the approximate syntax of the command or that it has been expanded in the next version of IOS.

Lots of companies make books solely elaborating on the references provided by the manufacturer [ala Osborne on Borland and such].

It boggles my mind to figure how many they would probably sell [one for every customer router?]

Then again, I guess Cisco would sell it at they standard rates. $1095 for the 3 volume set on CD.

WARNING: There is some sarcasm in this message.

-Deepak.