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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:57:17 +1000
From:      "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>
To:        "Nik Clayton" <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <doc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: New article on Firewall-1 and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <PAELLGOEIMDLEJNEBOBOKEAPCDAA.wyldephyre2@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010714111644.G35484@clan.nothing-going-on.org>

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Hi,
I think this should go into the fdp primer, perhaps in an "Overview
Section"?

From reading just the primer, I was under the impression that I had to jump
through numerous hoops before I could get a document up and running. Now
that I see otherwise, I may actually give writing something a go.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nik Clayton
> Sent: Saturday, 14 July 2001 8:17 PM
> To: Jon O .
> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: New article on Firewall-1 and FreeBSD
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:49:34PM -0700, Jon O . wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > A friend and I have written an article outlining how
> > to create a VPN between Checkpoint Firewall-1 and FreeBSD
> > using Kame and racoon. I've converted the article to the
> > standard FreeBSD html style for your review here:
> >
> > http://www.securityreports.com/vpn/index.html
> >
> > Please send me any feedback you have.
>
> Looks good.  It's not an area I'm familiar with, so I can't say more
> than that :-)
>
> > Also, I have another article in the first stages outlining
> > how to create a VPN between FreeBSD and Windows 2000.
> > My understanding is that I should write any docs in SGML then
> > use a tool to convert to HTML (the FreeBSD HTML style).
> > Is this correct?
>
> Yes.  By far the easiest way to do it is.
>
>   1.  Install the docproj/ meta-port, as described in the Doc. Proj.
>       Primer, at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/
>
>   2.  Get a local copy of the FreeBSD doc/ tree.  Either use CVSup in
>       "checkout" mode to do this, or get a full copy of the CVS repository
>       locally.
>
>       If you have the CVS repository locally then as a minimum you will
>       need to checkout the doc/share, doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share, and
>       doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles directories.
>
>   3.  Place your document in a subdirectory of the articles/ directory,
>       (perhaps vpn-w2k/) call it article.sgml, and give it a Makefile
>       (which you can copy from any of the other articles).
>
>   4.  Edit away.
>
>   5.  To convert your document from DocBook to another format simply do
>
>           make FORMAT=foo
>
>       where 'foo' is one of html, html-split, txt, ps, pdf, rtf, or pdb.
>
>   6.  Submit article.sgml using send-pr.
>
> > The article listed above is in HTML
> > using another FreeBSD article as an example. I suppose
> > it can't be converted to SGML from HTML
>
> I think there are mechanical converters around, but they tend to work
> best on big documents -- the Firewall 1 article isn't too big, so doing
> it manually should probably only take about 30 minutes.
>
> N
> --
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