Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:37:26 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/30202: pointer to pointer to information Message-ID: <20010831153726.C12674@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <200108311629.f7VGTX370290@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:29:32AM -0700 References: <20010831155933.24BD23E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <200108311629.f7VGTX370290@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:29:32AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Unfortunately we can't magically determine from within a document what > version of FreeBSD the reader is running, or what architecture they're > running on. :-) Sure we can. Integrate security/nmap into textproc/docproj. You have everything else in there, anyway. ;-) > <para>See the complete list in the Hardware Notes for the version of > FreeBSD being installed. The Hardware Notes for all released versions > of FreeBSD can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > releases/">FreeBSD Release Information</ulink> page.</para> I chose the release notes page because the Handbook/FAQ is supposed to cover 2.x-4.x. The above looks good, I'd say commit it. > FWIW I think any of the three proposals (Michael's, Dima's, or mine) is > better than what we're doing right now, which I guess was Michael's > original point. <thought balloon> Actually, I just finished the first draft of "Absolute BSD" and sent it off to the reviewers. After being used and abused by editors for five months straight, I wanted to pick on someone else's writing for a change. Unfortunately, Dima's being picky and frustrating that effort, too. Sigh. </thought balloon> Yes, that was my original point. Programmer sorts have legit reasons for using pointers to pointers, but in documentation it isn't so sensible. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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