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 However, yes, it is a bit out of date.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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