From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 10:59:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vms4.rit.edu (vms4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AE337B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:59:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sonic.rit.edu ([66.67.52.29]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41784) with ESMTPA id <01KBS7BZ8HJ8C2L3JY@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:59:22 EST Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:57:29 -0500 From: Matt Penna Subject: RE: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck In-reply-to: X-Sender: mdp1261@vmspop.isc.rit.edu To: Joe & Fhe Barbish , Ceri Cc: FBSD Questions Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011212134817.01d865e0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20011212175225.A14728@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:30 PM 12/12/01 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: >Is this for your self enlightenment, or are you in a position to make >changes to the man pages as released with the install? I have all ready >received a acceptable answer to my question. I stated my position on this >subject and unless you can get things changed it ends here. Joe, Ceri asked a legitimate question - EVERYONE is in a position to suggest changes to the man pages, or indeed any other piece of documentation for FreeBSD, many of which are adopted with a minimum of revision. If you have suggestions on how the documents can be clarified, please tell us what you found troubling so we can make them better. I didn't find Ceri's comments to be inflammatory; I thought they were simply an attempt to seek information. I, of course, don't know what the intent of the question was, but I took it to be, "What didn't you understand? Tell us so we can fix it." I echo that sentiment now: Tell us what's wrong with the docs. The place for such suggestions is the freebsd-doc mailing list, or if you have a simple, specific problem, send a problem report. Regardless, if you have problems with the docs, please tell us about them. Matt -- Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message