Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:53:11 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> To: Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 devsw.9 major.9 minor.9 umajor.9 uminor.9 vn_isdisk.9 Message-ID: <20010710135311.W1894@sneakerz.org> In-Reply-To: <20010710121219.B60722@colnta.acns.ab.ca>; from davidc@acns.ab.ca on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:12:19PM -0600 References: <20010710104921.A60485@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <54706.994785106@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20010710125322.T1894@sneakerz.org> <20010710121219.B60722@colnta.acns.ab.ca>
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* Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca> [010710 13:12] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:53:22PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> [010710 12:11] wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:49:21 CST, Chad David wrote: > > > > > > > I do agree that pages like major.9 could easily be merged, but I didn't > > > > really know what to name it > > > > > > Name the master file after the first Nm in the SYNOPSIS. Create > > > Makefile MLINK entries for all the other Nm entries in the SYNOPSIS. > > > > > > Rules of thumb like this mean you have to think less. :-) > > > > I'm handling the Makefile stuff, Chad would only have to tell me > > that a page needs links and I'll do it. > > As the number of files increases and I start grouping these > together we will need to come up with a way for you to know > which functions are included in / added to a file. I guess > just text in the email will work, but it could become a > little confusing for you if I don't send you small groups of > updates. > > Since you have to do the actual work, I'll send them however > you want. I just don't want to waste your time trying to sort > through this stuff. > > Oh how quickly this stuff grows into more than just writing > some man pages :). You could just send me deltas against the Makefile in src/share/man/man9. If you need help with getting your own local copy of the CVS repository I can whip up or try to find a small tutorial on doing this for you. You'll just need a couple of minutes to read it, about a gig of disk and a bit of bandwidth to download the repo. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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