Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:57:11 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeff Wyman <wysoft@wysoft.tzo.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small handbook error Message-ID: <20000719215711.C75784@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007190228330.18954-100000@wysoft.tzo.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007190228330.18954-100000@wysoft.tzo.com>
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--t0UkRYy7tHLRMCai Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jeff Wyman wrote: > I'm a complete idiot who doesn't even know how to make diffs, so I > thought I'd just let everybody know right away instead of figuring out > how to write a diff and holding out on you all for the time that may > take - I'm a slow learner. $ cp foo foo.orig $ your-favourite-editor foo <fix the problem in file "foo"> $ diff -u foo.orig foo > foo.diff and that's about it. :-) Note that if you're sending a diff for documentation, diffs to the SGML source are best because that's the format the documentation is maintained in. (Well, the stuff under doc/ anyway, manpages are different of course.) But if you don't have the SGML source installed, a diff to the HTML would probably almost be sufficient to get the problem fixed. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / --t0UkRYy7tHLRMCai Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: X7COSSND7TgfVVp6WtVViRyXKaly0bbZ iQCVAwUBOXYWJisPVtiZOS99AQGJ9AP/dmyvNO84Yz81fp/euhBk6AUMadRzSVSl FxK6xAZM+5kiS4q0/gizp7sumtgrxIrdfa5BS8cVK2oaInidFKA5L8H7u51RY3sd 4fWp01Sg2QH/TiH9iJnwhoJBqbHhKhqbB1bUiIiW22lUI7R68JtR6g3H/8vMjmsa usobZCZj9Ik= =uuPg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --t0UkRYy7tHLRMCai-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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