From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jul 12 21:26:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA06153 for doc-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:26:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA06146 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 21:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id aa12955; 13 Jul 96 5:26 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa23187; 13 Jul 96 1:25 +0100 Received: (from fdocs@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01692; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:20:49 GMT Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 20:20:49 GMT Message-Id: <199607122020.UAA01692@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov CC: doug@sun1paztcn.wr.usgs.gov, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607121845.SAA07765@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> (message from Sean Kelly on Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:45:47 -0600) Subject: Re: Let's hack on the Handbook! ..my ideas... Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Our on FreeBSD handbook would need an introduction to Berkeley > sockets, using floating point on the i386, etc., to merit a separate > book on programming. James Raynard got us a good start with his > tutorial on development (yay!). And if I had the time I'd be happy to > write a chapter on RPC programming with FreeBSD. Thanks for the plug :-) Actually, I was thinking of adding a few programming-related questions to the FAQ when 2.1.5 is out - things like how to write a screensaver or how to communicate with the serial ports, which come up every now and again. But I agree that there's not really enough to justify a Programmer's Handbook - after all, FreeBSD is a *very* standard platform to code for. If anyone does know of anything that would be useful and isn't already well covered, I'll be happy to write it up (time and competence permitting, of course :-) > Perhaps we use separate definitions for programmer's info ... where is > this stuff?!? Just a thought - perhaps the reference is to the papers under /usr/share/doc? Is it worth polishing those up and making them accessible using something a bit more sexy than zmore? There's a lot of useful information in there, and I'm sure a lot of people must overlook it completely (I know it took me about 3 releases to realise what was in there!). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/