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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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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.

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