misc/62364: Misleading information in the handbook

John Duncan agley at optusnet.com.au
Wed Feb 4 13:30:27 PST 2004


>Number:         62364
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Misleading information in the handbook
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 04 13:30:24 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>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:
>Unformatted:


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