From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 9 16:36:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5364B37B5FF for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:36:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.132]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000809233625.GOVA26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:36:25 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA01099; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:36:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:36:22 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re-structuring of the docs Message-ID: <20000810003622.B251@parish> References: <20000809135441.D251@parish> <20000809201305.A30032@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000809201305.A30032@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:13:05PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:13:05PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > On Wed 2000-08-09 (13:54), Mark Ovens wrote: > > I had also started working on producing a master index[1] for the > > docs > > PR 14165. > Hmm, I had been discussing this with Nik (a few months ago) and he never mentioned this PR (he knows about it 'coz he responded to it). OK, I guess I'll leave his alone then. > > The FDP Primer and the PPP Primer are under books/ in the cvs tree yet > > are installed under tutorials. Looking at both docs they are > > sufficiently large and well structured enough to be called handbooks > > in their own right, like the Porters Handbook. > > "Primers" are things which cover a specific area at depth. "Handbooks" > cover largish areas without much depth. > > > Also it would seem appropriate to merge the tutorial on setting up and > > using a firewall with a PPP connection into the PPP {Primer,Handbook}. > > I wouldn't think so. I'd prefer to see a "Network [Administrator] > Handbook" to cover that. That tutorial specifically doesn't talk about > ppp issues. > > I do propose that we set up the docs in the same tree as they're > installed on home systems on the web, so (for one) links work. > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > Sunesi Clinical Systems > nbm@mithrandr.moria.org -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message