Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:51:28 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020129125128.D68986@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <o9r8o9lm53.8o9@localhost.localdomain> References: <200201260704.g0Q74u864537@fedde.littleton.co.us> <02012713091300.01261@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020127155418.G32706@roman.mobil.cz> <o9r8o9lm53.8o9@localhost.localdomain>
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> To: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD
> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
> Date: 28 Jan 2002 22:14:00 -0800
>
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> writes:
>
> > > From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
> > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD
> > > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:09:13 +1030
> > >
> > > On Saturday 26 January 2002 17:34, Chris Fedde wrote:
> > > > You might want to submit a patch to the FreeBSD Documentation project.
> > >
> > > Want? - Yes. Be capable of? - No.
> >
> > Sure you are capable of submitting patches to man pages. Here's a
> > short howto:
> >
> > 1. step: find the source file:
>
> I suggest:
>
> $ man -wa passwd
> /usr/share/man/cat1/passwd.1.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man1/passwd.1.gz)
> /usr/share/man/man5/passwd.5.gz
That seems to require one to run a very CURRENT. :) I mean, it's no
good to submit a patch to a few months old revision. I have a patch
to ls(1) lying here that (if and when I submit it) will be a patch
to current CURRENT, and STABLE. Just finding the file(s) in the
source structure on one's disk allows for a quick checkout with cvs,
you don't have to have the latest revisions actually installed.
Of course, I don't suggest submitting untested changes, but a minor
change in man page is nothing critical.
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