From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 21 17:35:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C593937BFD8; Sun, 21 May 2000 17:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA70471; Mon, 22 May 2000 00:25:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:25:06 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Doug Young Cc: Eric Ogren , John Baldwin , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/18683: Insufficient detail in /usr/src/UPDATING instruc Message-ID: <20000522002506.B69598@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200005200230.TAA61531@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000520142528.KWQH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> <20000520114510.A775@earthlink.net> <02eb01bfc2b3$7c72b510$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <02eb01bfc2b3$7c72b510$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>; from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:31:09AM +1000 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:31:09AM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > I'm a relative newbie to unix generally .... been lurking in -docs for a > while to see what the "official" attitude is to documentation. Documentation is great. We love it, and we want more of it. > I'm making an attempt here to churn out some newbie-friendly stuff, long way > to go yet but the compliments I've been receiving from newbies over the week > since I put the presenly available material online indicate that something > like it has been needed for a long time. > www.apana.org.au/FreeBSD/FreeBSD_Tutorial/ Can you bundle those up and send them on to me for a closer look (I spend a lot of time on a train with a laptop, and a reliable 'net connection can be hard to come by). N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message