From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 14 01:58:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA07629 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA07618; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA01301; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:54:00 -0700 (PDT) To: Sean Kelly cc: doc@freebsd.org, jfieber@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How are the postscript handbook/FAQ versions generated? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jul 1996 13:46:34 MDT." <199607121946.TAA08152@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:54:00 -0700 Message-ID: <1299.837334440@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ah, gotcha - done, thanks! Seems to work. Of course, my history document still refers to 2.1.1 "maybe following 2.1, we're not sure" which is going to look a little strange given 2.1.5's release, but hey, it's too late now. :-) Jordan > >>>>> "Jordan" == "Jordan K Hubbard" writes: > > Jordan> Help! > > I'm assuming you can get as far as a handbook.tex file, right? Then, > just run latex on that file three times, then dvips on handbook.dvi, > and you're set! > > -- > Sean Kelly > NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov > Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/ From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 14 17:04:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA14755 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA14499; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:02:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA11347; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 20:01:55 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA11899; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:24:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 00:24:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , doc@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone up for a little triage on http://www.freebsd.org/about.html? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > The overall style of our current version isn't so bad so much as is > > the content - I don't think that trumpeting "PRE-EMPTIVE > > MULTITASKING!" is, for example, quite as effective as citing some more I was going to say one other thing, but it seems to have had slipped... If you do nothing else to the welcome.html file, change the first line after the heading "Availability" near the bottom. "You might expect to pay a considerable sum of money for all the performance and features of FreeBSD, but thanks..." It just screams "INFOMERCIAL" at me (things which generally don't rank too high in credability, it seems). Possibly, "While the perfomance and features of FreeBSD are worth a considerable amount, thanks to..." Which isn't incredibly better, but seems to be an improvement (from here, anyways). -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 14 21:31:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA22622 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA22609 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:31:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA24828 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma024826; Sun Jul 14 21:30:12 1996 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA05393 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:30:11 -0700 From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199607150430.VAA05393@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: sleep(3) man page To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:30:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "can't parse this" .. RETURN VALUES The sleep() function returns the number of seconds remaining to complete the operation. If sleep is interrupted or cannot allocate a timer it may will return the value needed to be passed to a subsequent sleep to com- plete the necessary delay. sleep() repeatedly until it returns zero may busy-wait until a timer is available. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@whistle.com * Whistle Communications Corporation From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 15 12:04:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01891 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01679; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id an12023; 15 Jul 96 19:25 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa23203; 13 Jul 96 1:25 +0100 Received: (from fdocs@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01705; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:34:25 GMT Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:34:25 GMT Message-Id: <199607122034.UAA01705@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: jkh@time.cdrom.com CC: doc@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <14029.837166189@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: Anyone up for a little triage on http://www.freebsd.org/about.html? Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > I don't know about you folks, but that text's been looking a little > shopworn to me lately. Here are a few things I jotted down when I was thinking about a new Intro to the FAQ (some of them based on existing entries). Feel free to copy, amend or completely ignore them as appropriate:- What is FreeBSD?

Briefly, FreeBSD is an implementation of BSD4.4 Unix for the PC, and also draws on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's Net/2 distribution to the i386, known as 386BSD. However, a very considerable number of bug fixes and enhancements have been made to the original code base, resulting in a extremely powerful and highly sophisticated operating system.

FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals and home users all over the world. See the FreeBSD Gallery for a list.

For a more detailed description, see the Introduction to the FreeBSD . What are the goals of FreeBSD?

The goals of the FreeBSD Project are to provide software that may be used for any purpose and without strings attached. Many of us have a significant investment in the code (and project) and would certainly not mind a little financial renumeration now and then, but we're definitely not prepared to insist on it. We believe that our first and foremost "mission" is to provide code to any and all comers, and for whatever purpose, so that the code gets the widest possible use and provides the widest possible benefit. This is, I believe, one of the most fundamental goals of Free Software and one that we enthusiastically support. That code in our source tree which falls under the GNU Public License (GPL) or GNU Library Public License (GLPL) comes with slightly more strings attached, though at least on the side of enforced access rather than the usual opposite. Due to the additional complexities that can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software, we do, however, endeavor to replace such software with submissions under the more relaxed BSD copyright whenever possible. Why is it called FreeBSD?

It may be used free of charge, even by commercial users. The full source code is freely available, and the minimum possible number of restrictions have been placed upon its use, distribution and incorporation into other work (commercial or non-commercial). Anybody who has an improvement and/or bug fix is free to submit code and have it added to the source tree (assuming of course that their code is of sufficient quality!)

For those of our readers whose first language is not English, it may be worth pointing out here that the word ``free'' is being used in two ways here, one meaning ``it costs nothing'', the other meaning "you can do whatever you like". Apart from one or two things you ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:02:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mschulter@localhost) by mach1.mpu.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id SAA10223; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607160111.SAA10223@mach1.mpu.com> To: doc@freebsd.org X-URL: mailto:doc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2-4-2 X-Personal_name: Margo Schulter From: mschulter@mpu.com Subject: mailto:doc@freebsd.orgMouseless graphics & FreeBSD Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Perhaps this is an RAQ (Rarely Asked Question): as a non-mouse-user who has been using command-line graphics viewers for seven years in MS-DOS to preview PostScript files or typeset pages, is there any way to do this in FreeBSD? The book _Installing and Running FreeBSD_ and other references I've seen seem to assume that anyone who needs any graphics-mode preview would use X-Windows, which requires a mouse or similar pointing device. Short of writing my own version of X-Windows which runs with keyboard commands alone , is there a solution, like maybe some third- party graphics viewers which could be called from a shell script, say? As a current subscriber to FreeBSD 2.1 through Walnut Creek CDROM, I'd much appreciate any advice. From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 15 18:18:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA09505 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA09495 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA17780; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:18:31 -0700 (PDT) To: mschulter@mpu.com cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailto:doc@freebsd.orgMouseless graphics & FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:11:03 PDT." <199607160111.SAA10223@mach1.mpu.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:18:31 -0700 Message-ID: <17778.837479911@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Perhaps this is an RAQ (Rarely Asked Question): as > a non-mouse-user who has been using command-line graphics > viewers for seven years in MS-DOS to preview PostScript files > or typeset pages, is there any way to do this in FreeBSD? The book Not really, no. There have been some experimental graphics APIs that were floated at various times, but nothing substantial and certainly nothing that was supported by any of the applications you'd want to run. I also seriously doubt this will change at any point in the future and you might as well get used to the idea of either using text mode only or installing X if you want any sort of graphics. :-) Jordan From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 19 09:21:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA05928 for doc-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from su1.in.net (su1.in.net [199.0.62.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA05890; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by su1.in.net (5.65/1.2-eef) id AA29431; Fri, 19 Jul 96 11:18:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 11:17:36 -400 (EDT) From: Jay Richmond Subject: multiple OS documentation update To: doc@freebsd.org Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk to those interested: the new multiple OS documentation (recently converted and updated substantially) is available on the WWW at http://www.in.net/~jayrich/doc/multios.html and will be available shortly on the freebsd web server. thanks, jay jayrich@in.net