Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:26:41 -0800 (PST) From: John Duncan <agley@optusnet.com.au> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/62364: Misleading information in the handbook Message-ID: <200402042126.i14LQfF7016683@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200402042130.i14LUOGJ069333@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 62364
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Misleading information in the handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 04 13:30:24 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Duncan
>Release: 5.2 release
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Section 11.4.1.3 of the handbook suggests using /dev/fd/3 to capture Ghostscript output. This device is no longer present on FreeBSD by default and when I tried to install it using fdescfs Ghostscript could not access it. This could put off new users.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Try the setup used here
http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-print.html
Example 7.4
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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