From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 20:12:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wysoft.tzo.com (c481444-a.bremtn1.wa.home.com [24.12.235.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D328537BA56; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wysoft@wysoft.tzo.com) Received: from localhost (wysoft@localhost) by wysoft.tzo.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6K38NT20250; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:08:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:08:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Wyman To: Ben Smithurst Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Small handbook error In-Reply-To: <20000719215711.C75784@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for helping a kid out :) On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Jeff Wyman wrote: > > > I'm a complete idiot who doesn't even know how to make diffs, so I > > thought I'd just let everybody know right away instead of figuring out > > how to write a diff and holding out on you all for the time that may > > take - I'm a slow learner. > > $ cp foo foo.orig > $ your-favourite-editor foo > > $ diff -u foo.orig foo > foo.diff > > and that's about it. :-) > > Note that if you're sending a diff for documentation, diffs to the > SGML source are best because that's the format the documentation is > maintained in. (Well, the stuff under doc/ anyway, manpages are > different of course.) But if you don't have the SGML source installed, > a diff to the HTML would probably almost be sufficient to get the > problem fixed. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message