| From: | "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu> |
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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: [HACKERS] Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages |
| Date: | 1999-08-10 14:44:22 |
| Message-ID: | 19990810094422.B27644@wallace.ece.rice.edu |
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On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:47:53PM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> So, do Oliver's conventions make sense for most platforms? istm that
> they do. Would folks have problems with a mapping similar to what
> Oliver uses? We would use section one (1) and section seven (7), with
> a qualifier of ell (l) on each of the man page names. I won't do
> anything about it right now, but would like to get a consensus now
> that the subject has come up. Speak up now or forever hold your...
>
Well, they make sense for _me_ but then, I run Debian and use Oliver's
packages ;-) As to the general proposal: put them in the nubmered sections
witha unique suffix. I'd suggest, however, at least a two character suffix:
how about pg? or sql? (tcl/tk uses section 3 with foo.3tcl and bar.3tk)
Ross
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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005
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