From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 26 12: 3:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC5237BEC5 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:03:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA20052; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:33:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:33:07 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Jim Mock Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/20130: Entities missing from doc/share/sgml/man-refs.ent Message-ID: <20000726193307.A19989@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200007240550.WAA15046@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007240550.WAA15046@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 10:50:01PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 10:50:01PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > I think the major reason for this is that a) stuff that's needed can be > added when a document is written, As Udo points out, this is a bit of a pain. > and b) it keeps the file size down. Also, as he pointed out in an earlied message, while this is the case, it seems to have a negligible effect on the Jade's process time and memory usage. I say go for it. In particular, with an eye to the future, I'd like to see something like man-refs.ent be shared between the BSDs (and who knows, perhaps a few Linux distros as well). No sense in everybody reinventing the wheel. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message