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To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc: chuckr@mat.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: suggestion for documentation 
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Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 08:59:48 -0700
From: John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>
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On Wed, 07 May 1997 23:49:54 PDT, Satoshi Asami wrote: 
> * I'm thinking of a new section 17.2.5.x on
> * <http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/porting.html>
> * that says
> * 
> *     17.2.5.x After the Port Works
> * 
> *     To distribute your port to others,
> *     (1) Ftp your port to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/incoming
> *     and (2) send mail about it to freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG.
>
>Well, there already is a "Submitting the port" section.  Maybe it's a
>little easy to miss because it's kinda in the middle (right at the end 
>of "quick porting").

D'ohh!  I guess I missed it---carefully RTFM is the moral of this
story.  Putting a pointer to it at the end of the section 17.2.5 would
make it more noticable for the casual reader, though.

   -John Heidemann