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From: Jamil Taylor <jamil_taylor@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Stable Documentation
To: Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>,
	Jeff Lee <oxforlife@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:40:48 -0400
 Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net> wrote:
> ++ 16/08/01 17:59 +0000 - Jeff Lee:
> | I am trying to keep up my reading of the docs from freeBSD-Stable, but I 
> | have no idea how to turn the doc tree into a readable format.  I tried to
> | read the documentation project primer, but that didn't help too much.  If
> | someone could just send me the procedure to build and install the 
> | documentation, I would be able to read all of it, and possibly 
> | contribute.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/x182.html
> 
> To actually build the docs (render the different formats from the SGML):
> cd <path to co'd doc>/en_US.ISO8859-1; make
> 
> You can specify specific formats with the FORMATS variable.
> 
> Perhaps the FDP is lacking on this; maybe making it more clear will be
> your first patch? :-)
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> -pete

Also, install the tools needed to build the docs. This can be done easily by
installing the docproj port located in ports/textproc/docproj.

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