Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:08:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Wyman <wysoft@wysoft.tzo.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Small handbook error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007192007580.20239-100000@wysoft.tzo.com> In-Reply-To: <20000719215711.C75784@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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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 > <fix the problem in file "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
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