Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:20:11 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Coelho, Joao@EDD" <JCoelho@edd.ca.gov> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help out. Message-ID: <19990824162011.C65430@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <9CF6ED1D2A5ED211BDCA00805FA783D1029E59F2@eddexmb05.cahwnet.gov>; from Coelho, Joao@EDD on Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:56:58PM -0700 References: <9CF6ED1D2A5ED211BDCA00805FA783D1029E59F2@eddexmb05.cahwnet.gov>
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Joao, Please excuse the amount of time it's taken for me to reply to this, things have been somewhat hectic on the -doc front recently. On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:56:58PM -0700, Coelho, Joao@EDD wrote: > While I virtually know nothing about BSD or Unix. I have worked with Xenix > on a programming assignment for a job, and at home with coherent now dead , > I figured that the best way to learn more is to do something like this. If > you think my inexperience is usable I am interested. Let me know. > My home email address is: jtcoelho@msn.com <mailto:jtcoelho@msn.com> Thanks for getting in touch. Given that you say you're new to BSD and Unix, there's a vast number of ways in which you could be able to help. And they're all because of your inexperience. A lot of our documentation is (inevitably) written by people who have some mastery of the subject they're documenting. This means (and I'm as guilty of this as anyone) that sometimes the documentation manages to skip over steps that (to the author) are obvious, or omits information that the author thinks "everyone knows". You will undoubtedly find this as you use the available documentation to learn how to use FreeBSD. Probably the most valuable thing you can do when this happens is (a) ask questions about the problem you're finding on the appropriate mailing list (which will almost certainly be questions@FreeBSD.org) and then (b) take those answers, and submit corrections and clarifications to the documentation, based on what worked for you. The best way to submit changes and requests is using the send-pr(1) program which is installed with FreeBSD. Detailed instructions on how to actually do this can be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/submitting.html. Welcome to the FreeBSD Documentation Project! I look forward to seeing your first changes and clarifications. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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