Subject: Re: NetBSD docs
To: None <of@linkedwith.lv>
From: maximum entropy <entropy@tappedin.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/19/2001 06:36:04
>From: "Oleg Frolov" <of@linkedwith.lv>
>Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:15:11 +0300
>
>> You will find many of the BSD documents in /usr/share/doc
>It's common answer for BSD. It's not sufficient.

I didn't say it was sufficient.  I said it would be a starting point.

>> 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 ?

You said "programmer's manual".  I took that to mean "programmer's
reference manual".  If you meant "programmer's supplementary
documents", then I agree.

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