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Date:      Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:33:17 -0500
From:      "Richard M. Neswold" <rneswold@drmemory.fnal.gov>
To:        Sean Kelly <kelly@plutotech.com>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New document available...
Message-ID:  <19981022143317.A1149@drmemory.fnal.gov>
In-Reply-To: <362F60C9.31DF0537@plutotech.com>; from Sean Kelly on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 10:43:53AM -0600
References:  <19981007231536.A17680@drmemory.fnal.gov> <362F60C9.31DF0537@plutotech.com>

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If memory serves, didn't Sean Kelly say:
> > I've placed a document on the web to help new FreeBSD users.
> > ... 
> >         http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold/www/fbsd-init.html
> 
> And you clearly know your way around Docbook.  Would you also post the
> SGML source?  That might help other people approach the DTD and start
> developing more documents.

I'll put it on my web page so it doesn't clutter up the mailing list.

> ** In the Customizations section, check spelling of "dependant."

Oops! Wrong "dependant"/"dependent"! Thanks for pointing it out...

> ** In Increasing the number of lines/Just do it, refer to the figures
> directly, if you're going to use formal figures.  If you're saying "the
> following...", then use informal, unnumbered figures.

This is due to my inexperience in SGML. I tried to directly refer to the
figure, but I couldn't get SGML to generate the appropriate text. Maybe
there's a more recent DocBook or some DocBook documentation that explains
it better...

> ** In Moving /tmp to Memory, another benefit of using MFS is the system
> performs better when you have processes using memory-mapped files in
> /tmp; changes to the memory-mapped file don't have to be backed out onto
> disk, since the file itself lives in a memory filesystem.

Thanks! I'll add this to the list of benefits...

-- 
  Rich

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