From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 16 21:06:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA07639 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 21:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-2000.com (i-2000.com [204.97.92.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07628; Thu, 16 May 1996 21:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freyes.dh.i-2000.com (freyes.dh.i-2000.com [204.97.94.246]) by i-2000.com (8.7.5/8.7) with SMTP id AAA23743; Fri, 17 May 1996 00:06:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199605170406.AAA23743@i-2000.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD doc Mailing list" , "FreeBSD FAQ Team" Date: Fri, 17 May 96 00:04:57 -0400 Reply-To: "freyes@i-2000.com" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Francisco Reyes's Registered PMMail 1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Suggestion for FAQ pages Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I started getting acquainted with FreeBSD I new about virtual consoles because I had seen a work-mate changing virtual consoles in Linux. When I need to increase the number of virtual consoles I tried the FAQ and the handbook. At that point I didn't know that those "screens" where called "consoles" so I spent a long time to find the related information. Today it just HIT me that when I was searching I did try "virtual screen" but found nothing. I went to check FAQ and to my surprise both of the topics related to virtual consoles don't have the word screen. To people familiar with Unix console may be a common term, but for the rest of us we think of screens. I would like to recommend that in the section "how do I access a virtual console" a brief explanation be included of what is a virtual console and include the word "screen" somewhere so someone doing a search will find it. Another possibility is to change the header to "how do I access a virtual console/virtual screen" or something simmilar. Some people familiar with Unix may find it a bit silly that you would include the definition or use the word screen, but the FAQ is not meant primarily for them.