Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com> wrote:
> > There's another approach [...] That is to have the relevant hostnames
> > and directories represented in the document as parameters, and have
> > the installation procedure configure them to the real hostname and
> > directories of the target machine.
>
> And if the configuration is wrong, then the examples are wrong as well.
> What about the configuration documentation, how does one do parameter
> substitution before the configuration is even attempted? A good idea,
> but it doesn't really cover all the bases.
The examples that most need to be configured are the examples for list
administrators that aren't really computer wizards ... I happen to
support several of those. Presumably whoever is actually installing
and doing tech support for Majordomo will be more adept at parsing
metasyntactic variables.
-- Walt
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