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Date:      Sun, 04 Oct 1998 14:14:25 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        rotel@indigo.ie
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/8015: Some sysctl descriptions for the kernel 
Message-ID:  <15480.907503265@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:14:57 -0000." <199810041114.MAA00926@indigo.ie> 

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In message <199810041114.MAA00926@indigo.ie>, Niall Smart writes:
>On Oct 1,  4:40am, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> 
>>  >	Seeing a commit message asking for descriptions on new sysctl
>>  >entries I thought I might add some, too.  I choose the ones I could
>>  >identify right away and knew what they were doing.
>>  
>>  >	This is untested but I think it will work.  Unfortunately we
>>  >don't have a tool to list the comments, yet so one can't really test
>>  >them anyway.  :-(
>>  
>>  That was actually my dream at one point, the comment would be in 
>>  SGML and some tool would walk all over the kernel and construct
>>  some doc from that.
>
>Oh, surely the comments should be in troff!

You can convert SGML to troff, so SGML wins.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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