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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: Corrupt 'tar' man page
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.194150.18223@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1993Jan10.060026.10328@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1993Jan10.134826.23887@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1993Jan11.004930.6794@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:41:50 GMT
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- aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) writes:
- > I loaded them in /pub/OS/Linux/ALPHA/incoming (I think that is
- > correct), and dropped a note to arl@cs.hut.fi. I understand he will
- > move the files to the correct place:
- > /pub/OS/Linux/ALPHA/doc-project on nic.funet.fi
- > which is where others can find them.
-
- Thanks. All contributions are welcome.
-
- However, since the ALPHA/doc-project directory is intended for stuff
- that circulates withing the documentation project (things still under
- construction), not for stuff meant for public use, like your man
- pages, it would have been better to put them into Linux/incoming, for
- further moving to Linux/doc or Linux/doc/doc-project.
-
- Don't take this as a flame, it's not. The main thing is to get stuff
- available, by whatever means. If possible, though, I (and arl, I
- understand) would like the ALPHA/doc-project to not contain stuff that
- people should _use_, just stuff that people should _check_ and _work
- on_. Basically, ALPHA/doc-project is intended to make it unnecessary
- to transfer a lot of large documents via mail, especially since the
- mailing-list machine is overloaded as it is. If you want to spelling
- check, review, or otherwise work on a piece of documentation, look in
- ALPHA/doc-project. Likewise, if you have something that you want
- spelling checked, reviewd, etc, put it into ALPHA/incoming and ask
- arl@cs.hut.fi to move it to ALPHA/doc-project. If you just want to
- have a document or manual to read, you should stay out since the stuff
- in ALPHA/doc-project is not necessarily usable. Linux/doc and
- Linux/doc/doc-project are for you.
-
- The doc/doc-project directory should contain the stuff from the doc
- project that is ready to be used. It is empty at the moment, and
- might possibly be for a few weeks more (writing docs takes time).
- When stuff gets put there, there will be announcements.
-
- Yeah, I bitch about the distinction between ALPHA/doc-project and
- doc/doc-project because I am a control freak, but also because it is
- better to have a clear separation between the stuff that can be
- dangerously bad, and stuff that is checked and attempts to be
- finished.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-