From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Aug  8 00:12:41 2013
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAAE055C
 for <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>; Thu,  8 Aug 2013 00:12:41 +0000 (UTC)
 (envelope-from obrien.hugh@gmail.com)
Received: from mail-oa0-x232.google.com (mail-oa0-x232.google.com
 [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::232])
 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A38A5253E
 for <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>; Thu,  8 Aug 2013 00:12:41 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by mail-oa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id i4so4423956oah.23
 for <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:12:41 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
 h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type;
 bh=eSKHXjwjf05LLcmClLEBcZ2zBWpYrjK2tcA9Z0wEboY=;
 b=El12jIC9NDx6SyRu6nwTKhnLYgLaqKwSpEus3NEV5iITkQ3JpQOlNVvNv16Bugkwlb
 Dyk12xkyVpLgbSfxwTQY1TK1woL66dptLvi0FhHdVN1ZJS6eN6FHXwImLs+fZBFpXdeW
 8vc4PGuz46MVhw8TDISHCiDH5NGX7dlxD86Q4zC0AiELSyPnodEUoZuoQrv2/3PVT8lT
 /r4Kd26ebQrmRhGQipx/i1sqVZGBrCcTzEXTRIiNovyfDlLSYwZOwJwb/RHxS/7csfkM
 9DkTfR6R8Rkl00L15QDFR23w6TpK2eVQLTQqcb3h3/UmO6hAjId6Mbw8diDQjQ/iv5/H
 WK4g==
X-Received: by 10.60.143.68 with SMTP id sc4mr2511357oeb.24.1375920761027;
 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:12:41 -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.60.99.40 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Aug 2013 17:11:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Hugh O'Brien" <obrien.hugh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 01:11:59 +0100
Message-ID: <CAOHKUnK-j=x+u3gRBaYeHNMxzc_ewCdqcH064Trji5uCuXo=kg@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: 4.12 Binary Formats
To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14
X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14
Precedence: list
List-Id: Documentation project <freebsd-doc.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-doc>,
 <mailto:freebsd-doc-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-doc-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc>,
 <mailto:freebsd-doc-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:12:42 -0000

Hi there,

I'm a relatively long time user but was recently reading through the
handbook to see if there was anything I could learn when I found this
section:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/binary-formats.html

It's an interesting read, but I must question the wisdom of including it in
this stage of the handbook, where users are still new to the system. It
stands apart from the more immediately practical knowledge in the previous
pages and might be better suited to a page on writing your own programs.

I just wanted to call attention to this,

Thanks for the docs,

Hugh