From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 23 05:12:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA26809 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 05:12:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA26804 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 05:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip191.konnections.com [192.41.71.191]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id GAA13529; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:11:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335F5AB0.74966259@konnections.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:05:52 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen CC: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Want to write a section of the handbook. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would be happy to help as far as editing and grammar, etc go anytime. I don't know the conventions of the Doc project, but I could do/help with the LaTeX if needed. Really, though, the text is the hard part, most anyone can mark it up afterwards.... -Mike Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote: > > I am about to intergrate my FreeBSD box in an existing NIS-setup, and I > have found that this particular section of the handbook (13.14) still is > unwritten. > > Since NIS as well as the automounter is essential to our system (and > perhaps to others as well) I am willing to write a section on intergrating > a FreeBSD box as a client in a NIS/AMD/Sun-Automount based configuration. > > Could you please give me a hand with getting started - this is primarily > with regards to which minor issues to consider when writing, as well as > the correct package in which to write (LaTeX, HTML, SGML, Word?). > > Additionally help on correcting grammar and punctiuation (as well as > spelling :-) would be appreciated. > > Regards, > -- > Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen "...and...Tubular Bells!" > http://www.dit.ou.dk/~ravn