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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
To:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: docs/12181: [Patch] doc/en/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgm
Message-ID:  <199906152223.SAA03962@smtp3.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: <199906132120.OAA05815@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 13-Jun-99 Chris Costello wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/12181; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: docs/12181: [Patch] doc/en/handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
> needs updating.
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:12:25 -0500
> 
>  On Sun, Jun 13, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
>  > Can you redo this patch slightly?  Probably leave the examples without
>  > the quotes, but include a brief section explaining when the quotes were
>  > removed, and what to do if you're building on a system that still 
>  > requires the quotes.  Possibly include the error message you get if you
>  > need the quotes included, but haven't included them?
>  
>     What does that error message look like?

The update to config(8) that made quotes optional was only applied to -current.
Since the handbook is geared towards -stable and -release users, we probably
should keep that paragraph in for now, IMHO.

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