Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 06:40:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/19997: [PATCH] Addition of info about debug kernels to the FAQ Message-ID: <200007181340.GAA09477@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/19997; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net>
To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/19997: [PATCH] Addition of info about debug kernels to the FAQ
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:33:16 -0400
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:42:50PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> eogren@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > I seem to remember this being batted around -doc a couple of days ago by
> > somebody else (Ben Smithurst maybe?), but I deleted all of that email, and
> > I can't see any other entries having to do with debug kernels in the FAQ,
> > so...
>
> Ah... I was talking about a similar thing, for the handbook. Perhaps
> that's what you were thinking of. Having this in the FAQ could be
> useful...
>
Yup, that was it.
>
> Two minor points:
>
> 1. Generally, two spaces are used after a fullstop in documentation.
> I'm not sure how important this is.
Bleh. Old habits are hard to break. :)
>
> 2. Indentation. As Nik told me, new questions should be indented
> correctly, even though the rest of the FAQ isn't. Indentation rules
> are described in the FDP primer. For the FAQ, you need 6 spaces before
> the <qandaentry> (check at the top of the FAQ -- this is because of
> the number of outer tags, not some specific rule for the FAQ) and
> then follow the normal rules. If you don't have 6 spaces before the
> </qandaentry> at the end you've gone wrong somewhere.
>
OK, I can fix that pretty easily, probably tonight sometimes.
Eric
> The actual text looks good though. There's a couple of other things I'm
> putting in there soon. ("Why do I have so little free memory" and "Why
> have I got -RC instead of -STABLE" gives the general idea.)
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