Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:43:55 -0300 From: daniel_sobral@voga.com.br To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Driver Message-ID: <83256591.005FADFD.00@papagaio.voga.com.br>
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> Heh heh. How do you think stuff like this _gets_ documented? > Someone like you finds that its not doc'd, gets really annoyed, > then submits his diffs to the handbook or FAQ in order to > prevent others from having to go through the same learning > process - without that level of general annoyance, it's > unlikely that anyone else will document it. :-) Yeah, yeah, yeah... That would mean learn this troff stuff first, though. Next thing, you'll be wanting me to use emacs! :-) > I'll be happy to review the english if you have any worries > about that. After seven years of Bitnet/Internet, I learned not to give a damn about _my_ level of english... :-) Not that I thrive for perfection, though. > > 3) And, btw of documenting things what would be the easiest > > way of learning how to write a man page? > Look at another man page. :-) I never even considered any other way, but as far as man pages goes, we have quite a few of them, and, mind you, I have yet to know all them by heart. In fact, I just started a search beginning at man(1), and ended at "too many things to understand" error. (Which reminds me about my PR -- there was a man page mentioning buf(9), that does not exist; while the reference was remarked out, a buf(9) man page would still be handy.) And, finally, let me take this opportunity to ask: are all FreeBSD lists back on-line? I have received a single hackers digest, today, no current digest, no sys-commit or etc-commit, and no -fs. Though the later is the norm, I'm quite surprised at the lack of messages from the commit lists. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Daniel_Sobral@voga.com.br Tagline: * FreeBSD. Earth.
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