From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 8 00:08:59 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6833A2 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 00:08:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrien.hugh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x233.google.com (mail-ob0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE98124E9 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2013 00:08:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f179.google.com with SMTP id fb19so4575228obc.38 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:08:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Bd7KQDUK8E7LXwSkmu7J9AmYrmjcwayN8B8sd7n1raI=; b=s9f1HO3Uw1k4b08Snz1lvb8cZja7Evm1TDqkiAhN7pKUunRyU4BY59bLhn9eC5qvW2 loB2vhSj5CinIwuSY61k5J5iL1yUidiYQevpDNp3sHKMuLddVD64KeuBDzsOxNhwNgMt FnMf3FKlCV0ezjU/xos9vby8X+oKe4aWtEAhgWEdgVVbDRhIvQtil5K/6cwNGETu+puv 5isklRxANlZnBk6I+auQnpEECZikzA08Aag7++X1JDjPi52hU+xoCKismuPqcH9A1D5t 2zNwbWRc6eiNWWIltsESBypMqgeaHz+MBZkPvQ00V+aS9ctvKKY7abH+2aB7xu/Jddr/ kvKQ== X-Received: by 10.60.47.230 with SMTP id g6mr1094437oen.62.1375920538067; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:08:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.99.40 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Aug 2013 17:08:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Hugh O'Brien" Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 01:08:17 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: 4.12 Binary Formats To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:08:59 -0000 Hi there, I'm a relatively long time user but was recently reading through the handbook to see if there was anything I could learn when I found this section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/binary-formats.html It's an interesting read, but I must question the wisdom of including it in this stage of the handbook, where users are still new to the system. It stands apart from the more immediately practical knowledge in the previous pages and might be better suited to a page on writing your own programs. I just wanted to call attention to this, Thanks for the docs, Hugh