Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:42:59 -0700 From: "John Nielsen" <oniblerz@attbi.com> To: "Matthew Whelan" <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk> Cc: <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: typo in man ed (4) Message-ID: <08f401c19ed6$c4635a40$0900a8c0@max> References: <EBRQMIJDOMWRNMURMITOOKPMLJMG3183.3c45e8d9@VicNBob>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Whelan" <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; "John Nielsen" <nielsenj@cs.byu.edu> Cc: <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:55 PM Subject: Re: typo in man ed (4) > 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) Thank you Matthew. I submitted a pr on this. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=33962 JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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