From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 4 16:48:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28600 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28585 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-57.camalott.com [208.229.74.57]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12732; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 18:49:20 -0500 Received: from detlev.UUCP (localhost.UUCP [127.0.0.1]) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA20889; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 18:47:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from detlev!joelh) Message-Id: <199809042347.SAA20889@detlev.UUCP> To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: jdp@polstra.com, abial@nask.pl, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF documentation In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Sep 1998 18:55:28 EDT." Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 18:47:23 -0500 From: Joel Ray Holveck Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>> As far I know, the original published ELF specs are out of print. I >>> can help you with it. Briefly, an ELF file consists of: >> Intel has them online, and I will write that man page I promised if >> it's useful (although an info file may be better). > If you really want to leave the manpage format, go for DocBook, > imho. Sorry, not familiar with it, although I'd like to know more. (I don't do a lot of docs.) However, FreeBSD comes with two online readers: man and info. So I chose between those. However, if you can tell me about DocBook (an SGML format, yes?) then I'd like to look at it. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message