Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:55:53 -0000 From: Matthew Whelan <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "John Nielsen" <nielsenj@cs.byu.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: typo in man ed (4) Message-ID: <EBRQMIJDOMWRNMURMITOOKPMLJMG3183.3c45e8d9@VicNBob> In-Reply-To: <080801c19e6e$4712f360$0900a8c0@max>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] CC'ed to docs@ who should be interested 16/01/2002 09:15:01, "John Nielsen" <nielsenj@cs.byu.edu> wrote: >This is something that's bitten me on the two occasions I've needed to use >it, so I'm hoping it can get fixed. > >In the CAVEATS section of the ed (4) manpage, it says this: > > 16bit Compex cards identify themselves as being 8bit. While these >cards > will work in 8bit mode, much higher performance can be achieved by >speci- > fying "flags 0x04" (force 16bit mode) in your kernel config file. In >addi- > tion, you should also specify "iosize 16384" to take advantage of the >extra > 8k of shared memory that 16bit mode provides. > >If you put the word "iosize" in a kernel config file it produces a syntax >error. It should be "iosiz" (without the 'e'). > >I'm not familiar with the procedure(s) for fixing typos like this, but if >one of you could enlighten me and/or just take care of it I'd be >appreciative. Thanks, > >JN Source for ed(4) is /usr/src/share/man/man4/ed.4, the attached patch should fix the problem. Normal procedure for getting this addressed would be to fire a mail at docs@ (as it is a documentation problem) and/or file a PR (using send-pr or http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html) Yours, Matthew [-- Attachment #2 --] *** ed.4 Wed Jan 16 20:29:29 2002 --- ed.4.new Wed Jan 16 20:30:07 2002 *************** *** 175,181 **** .Em "flags 0x04" (force 16bit mode) in your kernel config file. In addition, you should also specify ! .Em "iosize 16384" to take advantage of the extra 8k of shared memory that 16bit mode provides. .Sh BUGS The --- 175,181 ---- .Em "flags 0x04" (force 16bit mode) in your kernel config file. In addition, you should also specify ! .Em "iosiz 16384" to take advantage of the extra 8k of shared memory that 16bit mode provides. .Sh BUGS The
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