From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 6:40:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5B137BD5A for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 06:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id GAA09477; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 06:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 06:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007181340.GAA09477@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Eric Ogren Subject: Re: docs/19997: [PATCH] Addition of info about debug kernels to the FAQ Reply-To: Eric Ogren Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/19997; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Eric Ogren To: Ben Smithurst 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 (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 > 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.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message