[Tipxd-devel] Update on current open tasks and latest checkins

[Thomas H. <nor...@ya...>]

Hi all.

Thanks to Roman for the BSD portability issues.  I have incorporated the
changes in the patch he sent me in to the latest sources.  Additionally, I have
added a new directory "doc/" and a new file "doc/config.tex".  I was trying to
determine the documentation format that I wanted to use.  I would have used
plaintext, since it is by far the most portable.  However, I can see the tipxd
user manual eventually growing beyond the limits of simple text and I decided
that at least *minimal*  formatting should be included.  I tried my best not to
have a subsubsub...section for every little thing.  However, if I've gone off
the deep end, let me know.  =)

The document is written in LaTeX, which can easily be converted to postscript
with the following commands:

> latex config.tex
# Produces "config.dvi" as well as some other files
> dvips -o config.ps config.dvi
# Produces "config.ps" for printing or viewing with ghostview

When the document is fleshed out a little more, I'll create an HTML page for
posting to the website so that people can browse the user manual online.

Now, there will be a manpage eventually.  There will also be README that
contains some simplified information like known bugs.  Someone also needs to
create a CHANGELOG file for inclusion with the distro.  I haven't created these
files yet.  If someone wants to volunteer for this, though, be my guest... =)

Other than that, feel free to checkout the current documentation.  I will
hopefully be working some more tonight to get this document put together so we
have something on the configuration file format, and the main program data
structures.

	--Tom
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