Subject: Re: Detailed info on using /usr/sbin/config?
To: Robert Kennedy <robert@cs.stanford.edu>
From: Kerry Gray <kgray@netcom.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/10/1996 07:29:03
On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Robert Kennedy wrote:
> I've been slogging through the source code to config on my NetBSD 1.1
> system in an attempt to learn what things like "swap generic" really
> mean, and I've had some success. Still, though, it seems this
> particular utility is a low point in an otherwise good field of
> documentation for NetBSD. If I knew the required info for config, I
> would consider volunteering to write a man page. As it is, I just have
> to ask for one. Can we do better on this, i.e., come up with a man
> page for config that tells all the info? Barring that (or even not
> barring it), is there a faster way for me to pick it up than looking
> through the source? How did each of you gurus out there learn what the
> heck is going on inside that magic black box?
>
Have you printed out the document on config from /usr/share/doc ??