Add a warning not to use cut-and-paste when submitting patches.

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Tim Vanderhoek 1999-07-27 23:03:32 +00:00
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URL="http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html">WEB-based
equivalent</ulink>. Try to fill-in each field of the bug report.
Unless they exceed 65KB, include any patches directly in the report.
Consider compressing them and using &man.uuencode.1; if they exceed
When including patches, <emphasis>do not</emphasis> use cut-and-paste because cut-and-paste turns tabs into spaces and makes them unusable.
Consider compressing patches and using &man.uuencode.1; if they exceed
20KB. Upload very large submissions to <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/">ftp.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/</ulink>.</para>