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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2000 13:48:18 -0700
From:      R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: error in documentation
Message-ID:  <20000814134818.A35512@mammalia.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000814194535.B254@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 07:45:35PM %2B0100
References:  <3997EE00.77988B82@wgate.com> <20000814194535.B254@parish>

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And Mark Ovens spoke:

> BTW, can anyone explain why many (most?) people suggest running ``sh
> MAKEDEV <device>'' rather than ``./MAKEDEV <device'' (assuming both
> are preceded by ``cd /dev'')?

It's to make sure that the MAKEDEV script is run by sh, and not whatever
shell you happen to be running, such as csh for example.

Joseph


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