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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: openbsd version?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:04:02 -0700
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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
> Johannes> <optimism>Maybe he who found the documentation lacking is going to fix 
> Johannes> it?</optimism>
> 
> I'd be happy to do that.  But as a tech writer, I know that it's
> insane to not work at least from an implementor's rough draft, to at
> least understand the intent of a mechanism, if not the precise design.
> There's no implementor's rough draft here, so I can't help.
> 

Sounds like an offer to send Mr. Schwartz some notes to work from.  In 
my experience, sending notes to a good tech writer is about an order of 
magnitude less painful than writing polished documentation, so that 
should be easier.

	-hpa