From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 14:44:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5347337C022 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13F0tz-000GlQ-00; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:57:11 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13F0tz-000Fbn-00; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:57:11 +0100 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:57:11 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jeff Wyman Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small handbook error Message-ID: <20000719215711.C75784@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="t0UkRYy7tHLRMCai" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --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 $ 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