checking out douments

[Len Zettel]

In the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors,
it says:
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1.3 Quick Start
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1. Install the textproc/docproj meta-port.

# cd /usr/ports/textproc/docproj
# make JADETEX=no install
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Did that (I think) successfully.
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2. Get a local copy of the FreeBSD doc tree. Either use CVSup in
checkout mode to do this, 
or get a full copy of the CVS repository locally.

If you have the CVS repository locally then as a minimum you will need
to checkout the doc/share, 
and doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share directories.

% cvs checkout doc/share
% cvs checkout doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share

If you have plenty of disk space then you could check out everything.

% cvs checkout doc

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3. If you are preparing a change to an existing book or article, check
it out of the 
repository as necessary. If you are planning on contributing a new book
or article
then use an existing one as a guide.
   *   *   *
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If you wanted to edit an existing document, such as the FAQ, which is in 
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq you would check it out of the repository
like this.

% cvs checkout doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
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Okay.  After some unsuccessful thrashing around I conclude I have to
set the environment variable $CVSROOT.  What is not clear to me is
what exactly to set it to.  Also not clear is whether step 2 is
necessary before
step 3 can proceed succsessfully. Can you help?

thanks in advance
  -LenZ-