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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!stanb From: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: PPP how-to available here! Message-ID: <stanbE31wIu.E8A@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) References: <591h16$kue@nntp.interaccess.com> <59uabf$c91@uriah.heep.sax.de> <59v617$af4$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 02:35:18 GMT Lines: 26 Sender: stanb@netcom9.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33248 >I think that we need to add some info on the handbook on how to submit >documents and some basic info on SGML. I recall once I wanted to help with >the documentation project and I didn't get very far because I did not know >SGML and there isn't much online anyway. There is practically nothing >in the handbook which indicates how/where to send contributions. >If someone from the documentation project could spend some time in writing >the basics for people who would like to contribute it would pay off in the long >term. >What I suggest is that in the handbook we add: >-A few basic sample SGML pages so people can use them as guide >-Where existing documents are so people can FTP them to study them and >modify them. >-What are the programs one need to use to validate/parse (or whatever one >needs to do with SGML). This is a great idea. One example is worth a lot. I went through setting up dail on demand dynamic addressing ppp with DNS a few months back. I would probably have taken time to document this if I had had an example format for the sgml stuff. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.