From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 05:46:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CED37B434; Mon, 5 May 2003 05:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038BF43F75; Mon, 5 May 2003 05:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h45CkE56070375; Mon, 5 May 2003 07:46:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3EB65D03.1070102@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 07:45:55 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Murray Stokely References: <20030505044511.GB96309@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> <20030505003849.C225@freebsdmall.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Working With Manual Pages" Handbook Chapter Preview X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:46:16 -0000 Murray Stokely wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 12:45:11AM -0400, Jim Brown wrote: > >>I'd like to present "Working With Manual Pages", available at >>http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/manpg/book.html > > > Cool, I've wanted something like this for quite some time. > > I think the Developer's Handbook, the Doc Project Primer, or a > separate article would be suitable homes for this content. I think > I'm leaning towards the Developer's Handbook (which I think should be > split up soon into two books -- one for kernel architecture and one > for general FreeBSD development). I agree - I've also been wanting this for awhile. One question - should the "stirbits(1)" really be linked to the freebsd man pages (since it is after all a fake man page)? Doesn't seem like it to me.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------