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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:30:51 -0500
From:      "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
To:        "Ceri" <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
Cc:        "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: /etc/hosts file ?  FBSD doc suck
Message-ID:  <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOOEFBCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011212175225.A14728@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>

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Is this for your self enlightenment, or are you in a position to make
changes to the man pages as released with the install? I have all ready
received a acceptable answer to my question. I stated my position on this
subject and unless you can get things changed it ends here.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ceri [mailto:ceri@techsupport.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:52 PM
To: Joe & Fhe Barbish
Cc: FBSD Questions
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:16:10PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish said:

>  Some of the man pages you all most have to have the authors
>  level of knowledge to understand what it means.

Could you specify _exactly_ which part of the manpage you didn't understand?

###Begin excerpt from hosts.5 :

     The hosts file contains information regarding the known hosts on the
net-
     work.  For each host a single line should be present with the following
     information:

           Internet address
           official host name
           aliases

     Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.  A
     ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of
     the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.

###End excerpt

Ceri

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"Ummm, excuse me. I think the network's down...?"
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