From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 25 07:04:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA23991 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA23983; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 07:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dylan.visint.co.uk (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA28739; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:04:43 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:04:42 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Greg Lehey , David Nugent , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) In-Reply-To: <21201.867245498@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > To be fair, the handbook is pretty superficial. I'm not trying to > > knock it--it's better than nothing--but we need something in much more > > depth. I'm not just bitching about it: I've got a document half > > Well, that's because not enough people have worked on it, some of > them chosing instead to do divergent works in troff which didn't > enhance the central body of documentation at all. ;-) I'd point the finger of blame at the overall lack of documentation for anything more complicated than a toaster rather than people documenting things in the wrong way. It's not wrong format documentation that's a/the problem - it's merely lack of documentation. That's not a FreeBSD specific problem though, but it'd be nice if it got sorted out for FreeBSD. *Insert Gum Shield* M$ Windows does have good documentation though, perhaps due to people being paid to do it, or because there's a lot of people who can't write M$ Windows software but want to get it in on it. Oh I don't know, I hate writing documentation as much as anyone else, but it'd be nice if it was there. -- Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/