From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Aug 31 12:37:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D52B37B401; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:37:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA12769; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:37:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:37:26 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Dima Dorfman , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/30202: pointer to pointer to information Message-ID: <20010831153726.C12674@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20010831155933.24BD23E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <200108311629.f7VGTX370290@intruder.bmah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200108311629.f7VGTX370290@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:29:32AM -0700 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 On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:29:32AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Unfortunately we can't magically determine from within a document what > version of FreeBSD the reader is running, or what architecture they're > running on. :-) Sure we can. Integrate security/nmap into textproc/docproj. You have everything else in there, anyway. ;-) > See the complete list in the Hardware Notes for the version of > FreeBSD being installed. The Hardware Notes for all released versions > of FreeBSD can be found on the FreeBSD Release Information page. I chose the release notes page because the Handbook/FAQ is supposed to cover 2.x-4.x. The above looks good, I'd say commit it. > FWIW I think any of the three proposals (Michael's, Dima's, or mine) is > better than what we're doing right now, which I guess was Michael's > original point. Actually, I just finished the first draft of "Absolute BSD" and sent it off to the reviewers. After being used and abused by editors for five months straight, I wanted to pick on someone else's writing for a change. Unfortunately, Dima's being picky and frustrating that effort, too. Sigh. Yes, that was my original point. Programmer sorts have legit reasons for using pointers to pointers, but in documentation it isn't so sensible. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message