docs/62364: Misleading information in the handbook

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

The following reply was made to PR docs/62364; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk at daleco.biz>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, agley at 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  Maybe your doc tree is out of date, or the situation has 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