> You will find many of the BSD documents in /usr/share/doc
It's common answer for BSD. It's not sufficient.


> I'm not sure why you think the PRM is a horror.  It would probably be
> the easiest since it's essentially just the man pages (sections 2, 3,
> 4, and 5) which are rather well-maintained in NetBSD.
I partially agree.
I do _NOT_ want to start flame war, but Programmer manuals should be much
more theoretical than present
man pages. No ?


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Subject: Re: NetBSD docs


> >From: "Oleg Frolov" <of@linkedwith.lv>
> >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:29:50 +0300
> >
> >Seems, that we have a team. :) Good. I think a CVS project is good idea.
We
> >need to contact development team and discuss it. But still there is a
> >question - what's to do at first ? I think old BSD docs is a good
template
> >to start. So we need User supplementary documents, System manager's
manual
> >and (horror!) Programmers manual. Shouldn't we start USD ? Ideas ?
>
> You will find many of the BSD documents in /usr/share/doc.  Some of
> the irrelevant and out of date ones are not present though.  But if
> you want to stick to that documentation style and framework, much of
> what you will need to get started is already there.
>
> I'm not sure why you think the PRM is a horror.  It would probably be
> the easiest since it's essentially just the man pages (sections 2, 3,
> 4, and 5) which are rather well-maintained in NetBSD.
>
> --
> entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.
>