Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:27:31 +0530 From: "Masoom Shaikh" <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local copy of handbook Message-ID: <b10011eb0812311957p6544b3b2t6c8509dd96d4b6b6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87wsdhll2c.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <b10011eb0812282046j7b784d82q492c8b10cb46db06@mail.gmail.com> <20081229124558.43cefc56@gumby.homeunix.com> <200812292039.43242.masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> <20081229202717.GA78262@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <87myeemyx2.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20081230133345.GA81883@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <87wsdhll2c.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr > wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:33:45 +0000, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> > wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +0000, Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> > wrote: > >>> You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the > >>> docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command > >>> after you have csup'd. > >>> > >>> The process is described within this page I just put up: > >>> > >>> http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html > >> > >> Hi Masoom, > >> We have been working on a patch for the Handbook that adds a short > >> description of the same process. > >> > >> The patch has been recently posted to freebsd-doc, by Gabor Pali: > >> > >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2008-December/015315.html > >> > >> Since you already have written something similar, do you think we can > >> convince you to review the patch? It would be nice if you could help > >> us improve it or make it easier to read, and use. > > > > Hi Giorgos, > > I think your post was meant to be addressed to me as I wrote the above > > guide. > > Yes. Sorry about that Frank :) > > > I'd be happy to review the patch that Gabor has written & if necessary > > add or subtract from it. > > > > It will take me a bit of time to get up to speed with the mark-up & > > review/grok the updating docs in the round. ATM, they certainly fall > > short of including anything about updating a local copy of the docs. > > I can build a patched Handbook and upload it online, if that helps. > Then you don't have to learn SGML to read it. Just let me know if you > need it, and it's done. wow, am waiting eagerly....HTML is complex, what is SGML :) > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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