From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 22 12:34:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15325 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:34:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from drmemory.fnal.gov (drmemory.fnal.gov [131.225.105.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15317 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rneswold@drmemory.fnal.gov) Received: (from rneswold@localhost) by drmemory.fnal.gov (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA01229; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:33:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19981022143317.A1149@drmemory.fnal.gov> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:33:17 -0500 From: "Richard M. Neswold" To: Sean Kelly Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New document available... Reply-To: rneswold@mcs.net References: <19981007231536.A17680@drmemory.fnal.gov> <362F60C9.31DF0537@plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <362F60C9.31DF0537@plutotech.com>; from Sean Kelly on Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 10:43:53AM -0600 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold/www/pub.key X-Spambot-Food: abuse@localhost postmaster@localhost abuse@fbi.gov Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rich Neswold | PGP: 0A C8 A5 76 DF 8E E1 B3 rneswold@mcs.net | F3 97 BE 73 DA CD 4B C9 http://www.mcs.net/~rneswold/www/home.shtml To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message