From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 19:23:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA20740 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 19:23:59 -0800 Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA20725 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 19:23:52 -0800 Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA05831; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:23:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 22:23:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: Terry Lambert cc: Peter Marelas , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation.. In-Reply-To: <199511272120.OAA19564@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Due to all the argueing about the lack of documentation, why dont > > we all stop bitching, and do ourselves a favour by writing docs, on > > what we have experience in, when using freebsd, lets get the handbook > > growing. > > For things like IBCS2, this would be makework. For others, this would Ahem, it certainly would not be makework. Of course, it only needs to be a paragraph or so, but there should be *some* clear statement that FreeBSD offers SCO compatibility, and the (known) extent/limitations of that compatibility. Oh, and by the way you have to turn it on. You can turn it on manually by typing "ibcs2", or to have it loaded automatically at boot, edit /etc/sysconfig appropriately. I can't think of a better place to put this than in a handbook chapter on compatibilty with other systems. If we advertise SCO compatibilty, but the user has to do something to enable it, what the user has to do darn well better be documented. I don't buy the "it has no options, it needs no man page" argument. Besides, some threads on these mailing lists are a testament to the fact that SCO compatibility is *not* as straight-forward as typing ibcs2 and going merrily along your way. (hopefully it will one day be like that...) -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============