From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages |
Date: | 1999-08-10 03:21:06 |
Message-ID: | 37AF9AA2.367659E7@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> Oh, I get it. Can everyone handle multi-character man sections?
That is how, for example, the X system does their man pages. There are
sections "1x", etc. Except that now that I look on my RH linux system
they are squirreled away in /usr/X11/man/man1/, etc so I must have
seen that on another system. Perhaps my old Alpha boxes??
> 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.
Yes, that is a consideration. It is easy to automate adding a new
section (like "1sql" or "1p" or ??) for packages, but is something the
admin needs to remember to do on a from-source installation.
otoh, it does eliminate the possibility of man page pollution if we
manage to have the same man page name as some other existing page.
*That* would be a bad thing. And in general adding ~75 man pages to
existing sections is a pretty big load...
- Thomas
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California
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