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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:53:11 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 devsw.9 major.9 minor.9 umajor.9 uminor.9 vn_isdisk.9
Message-ID:  <20010710135311.W1894@sneakerz.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010710121219.B60722@colnta.acns.ab.ca>; from davidc@acns.ab.ca on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:12:19PM -0600
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* Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> [010710 13:12] wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:53:22PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> [010710 12:11] wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:49:21 CST, Chad David wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I do agree that pages like major.9 could easily be merged, but I didn't
> > > > really know what to name it
> > > 
> > > Name the master file after the first Nm in the SYNOPSIS.  Create
> > > Makefile MLINK entries for all the other Nm entries in the SYNOPSIS.
> > > 
> > > Rules of thumb like this mean you have to think less. :-)
> > 
> > I'm handling the Makefile stuff, Chad would only have to tell me
> > that a page needs links and I'll do it.
> 
> 	As the number of files increases and I start grouping these
> 	together we will need to come up with a way for you to know
> 	which functions are included in / added to a file.  I guess
> 	just text in the email will work, but it could become a
> 	little confusing for you if I don't send you small groups of
> 	updates.
> 
> 	Since you have to do the actual work, I'll send them however
> 	you want.  I just don't want to waste your time trying to sort
> 	through this stuff.
> 
> 	Oh how quickly this stuff grows into more than just writing
> 	some man pages :).

You could just send me deltas against the Makefile in src/share/man/man9.

If you need help with getting your own local copy of the CVS repository
I can whip up or try to find a small tutorial on doing this for you.

You'll just need a couple of minutes to read it, about a gig of 
disk and a bit of bandwidth to download the repo.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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