to whom it may concern

[Eric Anderson]

Matthew, Kristina and Ethan wrote:

>I appologize if this email goes astray somewhere it
>shouldn't.
>
>My name is Matthew and I received my BA in English Lit
>and Composition.  Since college I have had a variety
>of jobs; technical writer, tech support, chef, truck
>driver... etc.  I am also a FreeBSD newbie of about a
>year (4.4 on a compaq desktop w/pII 400mhz etc) and I
>am all self taught, relying mostly on available
>documentation to solve my problems... it has been a
>great help to me and I'd like to give something back
>to the Doc-Project.
>
>I am afraid I don't have anything in the way of new
>info to add... I'd like to offer my skills as a
>proof-reader and editor.  I would certainly be atuned
>to the "newbie" audience and might be able to re-work
>some sections to make them less confusing... anything
>along those lines....
>
>i don't know if help like this is needed.  if not, let
>me just say, "Thank you for helping me along.  I'm
>always available."
>  
>

You could start by coming up with patches for typos, bugs, etc, found in 
the handbook.

Here's one you could start with:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html

See the paragraph that starts with "The utility mdconfig(8) 
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdconfig&sektion=8> is very 
useful, however it asks many command lines to create a file-backed file 
system."

Eric


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