From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages |
Date: | 1999-08-10 03:08:10 |
Message-ID: | 199908100308.XAA14637@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > All information
> > > from those man pages appears somewhere else in the new docs; usually
> > > in the reference pages but sometimes in a more suitable place.
> > Great. Good job.
>
> Thanks. So, at the moment we have man pages for section one (1) and
> section ell (l). Is this the right section numbering for the future?
> How did we choose the "ell"? Should we consider having some utilities
It is very confusing. I think they chose 'l' for language. Does
someone want to suggest a better section number. Maybe just put them
all in 1.
> like initdb documented in, say, section eight (8)? How about having
> sections like one-sql (1sql) or something similar?
Oh, I get it. Can everyone handle multi-character man sections?
>
> It's easy to move things around, and I'm wondering if the current
> scheme works for people. I don't have a strong opinion on this...
>
I would like to use existing sections, rather than do our own. I found
I had to modify the man page search to look in a manl, and others may
have the same problem.
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