docs/62364: Misleading information in the handbook

[Ceri Davies]

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

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk at daleco.biz>
Cc: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit at 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 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.      
 
 
 >  % 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
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