From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 19 08:58:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15274 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:58:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from db2server.voga.com.br (db2server.voga.com.br [200.239.39.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15140 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:56:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daniel_sobral@voga.com.br) From: daniel_sobral@voga.com.br Received: from papagaio.voga.com.br (papagaio.voga.com.br [200.239.39.2]) by db2server.voga.com.br (8.8.3+2.6Wbeta9/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA16290; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:44:01 -0200 Received: by papagaio.voga.com.br(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.06 (346.7 3-18-1997)) id 03256591.00616909 ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:43:58 -0300 X-Lotus-FromDomain: VOGA To: jkh@time.cdrom.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <83256591.005FADFD.00@papagaio.voga.com.br> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:43:55 -0300 Subject: Re: Device Driver Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Heh heh. How do you think stuff like this _gets_ documented? > Someone like you finds that its not doc'd, gets really annoyed, > then submits his diffs to the handbook or FAQ in order to > prevent others from having to go through the same learning > process - without that level of general annoyance, it's > unlikely that anyone else will document it. :-) Yeah, yeah, yeah... That would mean learn this troff stuff first, though. Next thing, you'll be wanting me to use emacs! :-) > I'll be happy to review the english if you have any worries > about that. After seven years of Bitnet/Internet, I learned not to give a damn about _my_ level of english... :-) Not that I thrive for perfection, though. > > 3) And, btw of documenting things what would be the easiest > > way of learning how to write a man page? > Look at another man page. :-) I never even considered any other way, but as far as man pages goes, we have quite a few of them, and, mind you, I have yet to know all them by heart. In fact, I just started a search beginning at man(1), and ended at "too many things to understand" error. (Which reminds me about my PR -- there was a man page mentioning buf(9), that does not exist; while the reference was remarked out, a buf(9) man page would still be handy.) And, finally, let me take this opportunity to ask: are all FreeBSD lists back on-line? I have received a single hackers digest, today, no current digest, no sys-commit or etc-commit, and no -fs. Though the later is the norm, I'm quite surprised at the lack of messages from the commit lists. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Daniel_Sobral@voga.com.br Tagline: * FreeBSD. Earth.