From 31bbbf3e7aab22db0143338f42b017b0ce37e238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 04:29:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Style police.

---
 handbook/ports.sgml | 34 ++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/handbook/ports.sgml b/handbook/ports.sgml
index 31bb7fd0f2..ab9e2cac67 100644
--- a/handbook/ports.sgml
+++ b/handbook/ports.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: ports.sgml,v 1.28 1997-12-06 01:35:40 jraynard Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: ports.sgml,v 1.29 1997-12-29 04:29:17 jkh Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
 <chapt><heading>Installing Applications: The Ports collection<label id="ports"></heading>
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ installed. Here is the Makefile for ElectricFence:-
 # Date created: 	13 November 1997
 # Whom:			jraynard
 #
-# $Id: ports.sgml,v 1.28 1997-12-06 01:35:40 jraynard Exp $
+# $Id: ports.sgml,v 1.29 1997-12-29 04:29:17 jkh Exp $
 #
 
 DISTNAME=	ElectricFence-2.0.5
@@ -423,28 +423,16 @@ DESCR - a more detailed description.
 PLIST - a list of all the files that will be created when the program is installed.
 </itemize>
 
-<sect><heading>It Does Not Work?!<label id="ports:kaput"></heading>
+<sect><heading>What to do when a port does not work.<label id="ports:troubleshooting"></heading>
 
 <p>Oh. You can do one of four (4) things :
 
 <enum>
-<item> Fix it yourself. Technical details can be found in
+<item> Fix it yourself. Technical details on how ports work can be found in
   <ref id="porting" name="Porting applications.">
-<item> Gripe. This is done by e-mail *ONLY*! The people at Walnut Creek are
-   in no way responsible for the functionality (or lack thereof) of the
-   FreeBSD system as a whole, and especially the ports system, which
-   is mainly contributed by 3rd parties. (If you do not believe me, check
-   the catalogue, especially the line saying "We cannot offer tech-support
-   on this product")
-
-   The e-mail address is the &a.ports;. Please include 
-   details of the port, where you got both the port source &amp; 
-   distfile(s) from, and what the error was.
-
-   Note: At time of writing, lang/Sather does not seem to work on Pentium
-   machines due to the Intel Curse (aka the Floating Point Division Bug).
-   Please do not tell us about this - gripe to Intel instead - it is their
-   bug!
+<item> Gripe. This is done by e-mail *ONLY*! Send such e-mail to the &a.ports;
+   and please include the name/version of the port, where you got both the port
+   source &amp; distfile(s) from, and what the text of the error was.
 
 <item> Forget it. This is the easiest for most - very few of the programs in
    ports can be classified as `essential'!
@@ -452,13 +440,11 @@ PLIST - a list of all the files that will be created when the program is install
 <item> Grab the pre-compiled package from a ftp server. The ``master'' package
    collection is on FreeBSD's FTP server in the <htmlurl
    url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/" 
-name="packages directory.">
-
-   though check your local mirror first, please!
+name="packages directory">, though check your local mirror first, please!
 
    These are more likely to work (on the whole) than trying to compile from
-   source, and a lot faster!  Use the <tt>pkg_add(1)</tt> 
-dddprogram to install them to your system.
+   source and a lot faster besides!  Use the <tt>pkg_add(1)</tt> 
+   program to install a package file on your system.
 
 </enum>