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From: John Duncan <agley@optusnet.com.au>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Misleading information in the handbook
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>Number:         62364
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Misleading information in the handbook
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 04 13:30:24 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Thu Nov 04 20:10:07 GMT 2004
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 04 20:10:07 GMT 2004
>Originator:     John Duncan
>Release:        5.2 release
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Section 11.4.1.3 of the handbook suggests using /dev/fd/3 to capture Ghostscript output. This device is no longer present on FreeBSD by default and when I tried to install it using fdescfs Ghostscript could not access it. This could put off new users.      
>How-To-Repeat:
      
>Fix:
  Try the setup used here

http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-print.html 

Example 7.4   
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-docs 
Responsible-Changed-By: kris 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Feb 8 20:48:04 PST 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Documentation PR 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62364 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-docs->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: ceri 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Mar 22 13:55:30 PST 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Use the canonical form. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62364 

From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, agley@optusnet.com.au
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/62364: Misleading information in the handbook
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:14:26 -0500

     John Duncan wrote:
 
 Section 11.4.1.3 of the handbook suggests using /dev/fd/3 to capture Ghostscript output. This device is no longer 
 present on FreeBSD by default and when I tried to install it using fdescfs Ghostscript could not access it. This 
 could put off new users.      
     
 
 
 It could, indeed.  However, I don't find any reference to /dev/fd/3 in 
 the handbook.
 There is no usage other than in the printing chapter, which at the 
 present time
 is chapter 9.  Maybe your doc tree is out of date, or the situation has 
 changed and
 not been noted in response to your PR?
 
 % pwd
 /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook
 
 % ll .. | grep handbook
 drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  3072 Aug 25 16:32 arch-handbook/
 drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel  2560 Aug 25 16:32 developers-handbook/
 drwxr-xr-x  33 root  wheel  8704 Aug 31 21:26 handbook/
 drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  3072 Aug 31 21:27 porters-handbook/
 
 % grep /fd/ *
 pgpkeys-developers.html:W4tUdPq/fd/u54L7tUTo4lK7Os6JVwR3AfBtnyVR41j4QAu0yRW0JokCHAQTAQIA
 printing-advanced.html:class="FILENAME">.dvi</tt> so using <tt 
 class="FILENAME">/dev/fd/0</tt> for standard
 printing-advanced.html:class="FILENAME">/dev/fd/0</tt>, thereby forcing 
 <tt class="COMMAND">dvilj2p</tt> to read
 printing-advanced.html:ln -s /dev/fd/0 hpdf$$.dvi || fatal "Cannot 
 symlink /dev/fd/0"
 
 
 Perhaps this can be closed?
 
 Kevin Kinsey

From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
Cc: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: docs/62364: Misleading information in the handbook
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:27:08 +0100

 On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:20:26AM +0000, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR docs/62364; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
 > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, agley@optusnet.com.au
 > Cc:  
 > Subject: Re: docs/62364: Misleading information in the handbook
 > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:14:26 -0500
 > 
 >      John Duncan wrote:
 >  
 >  Section 11.4.1.3 of the handbook suggests using /dev/fd/3 to capture Ghostscript output. This device is no longer 
 >  present on FreeBSD by default and when I tried to install it using fdescfs Ghostscript could not access it. This 
 >  could put off new users.      
 
 
 >  % grep /fd/ *
 >  pgpkeys-developers.html:W4tUdPq/fd/u54L7tUTo4lK7Os6JVwR3AfBtnyVR41j4QAu0yRW0JokCHAQTAQIA
 >  printing-advanced.html:class="FILENAME">.dvi</tt> so using <tt 
 >  class="FILENAME">/dev/fd/0</tt> for standard
 >  printing-advanced.html:class="FILENAME">/dev/fd/0</tt>, thereby forcing 
 >  <tt class="COMMAND">dvilj2p</tt> to read
 >  printing-advanced.html:ln -s /dev/fd/0 hpdf$$.dvi || fatal "Cannot 
 >  symlink /dev/fd/0"
 >  
 >  Perhaps this can be closed?
 
 Well there's a /dev/fd/0 there which suffers from the same problem.
 
 Ceri
 -- 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ceri 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 4 20:08:57 GMT 2004 
State-Changed-Why:  
Kevin D. Kinsey's statement that this was no longer a problem since 
there are no references to /dev/fd/3 was correct; devfs provides 
/dev/fd/[0-2] anyway so my objection falls down. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62364 
>Unformatted:
