Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-08 Thread Igor Sobrado
D'oh! Of course, the SIMH entry in the FAQ 12 should read "Instructions can be found _at the_ OpenBSD/vax on SIMH page." Well... there are people with more appropriate english skills that will probably suggest a lot of changes like this one. Igor.

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-08 Thread Igor Sobrado
An important note: I missed one of the advices of Tom Cosgrove... I would replace the "OpenBSD's Flavors" link in the patch with something like "section 5" (as Tom suggests) or either "FAQ 5, flavors" as found on other parts of the FAQ. Tom suggestion is more readable, though. Of course, there ar

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Thanks a lot to all the people that provided feedback on this matter. Attached to this post is a new version of the patch. I did a mistake downloading the files used previously from the repository. This time, I choosed the right download method: $ cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs get www/faq The

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Ronnie Garcia
Nick Holland a icrit : Igor Sobrado wrote: I cannot see why making a patch to change the links is difficult. I will look at the cvs repository as soon as I get some time and submit a patch. In any case, I would appreciate a carefully review of it, just to fit it to the taste of the developers.

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Cosgrove writes: > > Don't create a bug report for this. This is not a bug. This is a > change of style that you (and some others) would like to see in the FAQ. > Nick, myself, and other people who work on the FAQ read misc@; there's > no point just pi**ing us

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread steven mestdagh
Igor Sobrado [2006-12-07, 20:29:23]: > Attached is the first draft of the patch. Once it has been debugged > I will open a bug report on it. Please, check carefully all the entries > in the patch and do not trust on my English skills. Some suggestions: > > - replacing references to threads in

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Tom Cosgrove
>>> Igor Sobrado 7-Dec-06 19:29 >>> > > Attached is the first draft of the patch. Once it has been debugged I > will open a bug report on it. Please, check carefully all the entries Don't create a bug report for this. This is not a bug. This is a change of style that you (and some others) woul

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Nick. I read your post after sending the patch. I will do my best to make these links as short as possible. Don't know your taste on this matter, but I do not dislike relatively long links if these links make the text more readable, and it is independent of the format of the document being us

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Attached is the first draft of the patch. Once it has been debugged I will open a bug report on it. Please, check carefully all the entries in the patch and do not trust on my English skills. Some suggestions: - replacing references to threads in the mailing lists (now the thread subject)

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Nick Holland
Igor Sobrado wrote: I cannot see why making a patch to change the links is difficult. I will look at the cvs repository as soon as I get some time and submit a patch. In any case, I would appreciate a carefully review of it, just to fit it to the taste of the developers. Igor. It's harder tha

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
I cannot see why making a patch to change the links is difficult. I will look at the cvs repository as soon as I get some time and submit a patch. In any case, I would appreciate a carefully review of it, just to fit it to the taste of the developers. Igor.

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-06 Thread Nick Holland
Igor Sobrado wrote: > Nice to see that the text and PDF releases of the FAQ have finally > been upgraded to 4.0... > > Just a suggestion: would it be possible replacing the links of the > class "...can be found here" (e.g., '1.7 of the OpenBSD FAQ) in > the FAQs to more useful descriptions (e.g.,

links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
Nice to see that the text and PDF releases of the FAQ have finally been upgraded to 4.0... Just a suggestion: would it be possible replacing the links of the class "...can be found here" (e.g., '1.7 of the OpenBSD FAQ) in the FAQs to more useful descriptions (e.g., "...can be found on the OpenBSD'