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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:14:14 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, dave@allunix.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Roasting Newbies
Message-ID:  <19991008131413.A10441@rucus.ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <19991008053729.C44391@mpp.pro-ns.net>
References:  <199910071346.NAA19666@web1.aps-services.com> <199910072120.RAA25826@blackhelicopters.org> <19991008053729.C44391@mpp.pro-ns.net>

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On Fri 1999-10-08 (05:37), Mike Pritchard wrote:
> If we add a "newusers" web document, then how about 1 or 2 "newusers"
> on-line manual pages as well.  I'm thinking something along the lines
> of newusers.7 (misc documentation), and newusers.8 (sys admin docs).
> We can setup the default install /etc/motd to mention these documents
> in the hope that they will be read.  And maybe mention them elsewhere
> in some of the install documentation, and other places.

We do have a newusers web document.

> If someone gives me the text, I'll be sure that it gets converted
> to our current man page style somehow (either by me, or someone
> I con...err, convince to do it :-).  I'm sure given quality text,
> we can find someone to convert it to docbook format, and I can
> probably do that, too, if no one else steps up to do that.

However, yes, it is a bit out of date.

I will probably volunteer for doing docbook conversions if they're
necessary.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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