| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Brook Milligan <brook(at)biology(dot)nmsu(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages |
| Date: | 1999-08-16 03:03:15 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.10.9908160002180.401-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brook Milligan wrote:
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> 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...
>
> OK, I'll speak up. :)
>
> This doesn't make too much sense to me based on my experience with
> zillions of other man pages.
>
> A quick look through all of my system-supplied, X11, and locally
Just a quick note, but, under FreeBSD *at least*, X11 puts its man pages
in /usr/X11R6/man/* ... so it doesn't conflict with "system" man pages...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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