From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jan 16 13:41:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E8D37B402 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:41:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from max ([12.254.136.195]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020116214141.XPNA5944.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@max>; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:41:41 +0000 Message-ID: <08f401c19ed6$c4635a40$0900a8c0@max> From: "John Nielsen" To: "Matthew Whelan" Cc: References: Subject: Re: typo in man ed (4) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:42:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Whelan" To: ; "John Nielsen" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:55 PM Subject: Re: typo in man ed (4) > CC'ed to docs@ who should be interested > > 16/01/2002 09:15:01, "John Nielsen" wrote: > > >This is something that's bitten me on the two occasions I've needed to use > >it, so I'm hoping it can get fixed. > > > >In the CAVEATS section of the ed (4) manpage, it says this: > > > > 16bit Compex cards identify themselves as being 8bit. While these > >cards > > will work in 8bit mode, much higher performance can be achieved by > >speci- > > fying "flags 0x04" (force 16bit mode) in your kernel config file. In > >addi- > > tion, you should also specify "iosize 16384" to take advantage of the > >extra > > 8k of shared memory that 16bit mode provides. > > > >If you put the word "iosize" in a kernel config file it produces a syntax > >error. It should be "iosiz" (without the 'e'). > > > >I'm not familiar with the procedure(s) for fixing typos like this, but if > >one of you could enlighten me and/or just take care of it I'd be > >appreciative. Thanks, > > > >JN > > Source for ed(4) is /usr/src/share/man/man4/ed.4, the attached patch should > fix the problem. > > Normal procedure for getting this addressed would be to fire a mail at docs@ > (as it is a documentation problem) and/or file a PR (using send-pr or > http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html) Thank you Matthew. I submitted a pr on this. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=33962 JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message