From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Nov 16 12: 1:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 309ED37B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-172-174.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.172.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF4243E75 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from [192.168.254.205] ([192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gAGK2MoU025773 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:02:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh! Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:55:53 -0800 To: doc@FreeBSD.org From: Rich Morin Subject: problem in handbook? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I dunno whether this is a problem in the handbook or the code, but Section 6.12.3 of the handbook says to # sh MAKEDEV vn0 When I try this, I get: # sh MAKEDEV vn0 MAKEDEV: line 1419: syntax error near unexpected token `)' MAKEDEV: line 1419: ` )' OTOH, this works fine: # ./MAKEDEV vn0 -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message