22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
5:26 a.m.
On Thursday, 21 September 2017 at 17:38:19 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 05:30:50PM -0700, Lyndon
Nerenberg wrote:
Huh? What about the man pages?
They're still there, and are being regularly updated.
On Sep 21, 2017, at 5:02 PM, Greg
'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
There was a good reason for that. To my recollection, they hadn't
been maintained At All, and they were decades out of date. While they
were interesting for their historical content, as user/programmer
documentation they were useless at best and misleading or dangerous at
worst.
So throwing them out was easier than updating them.
As I recall, the real reason they got tossed was because some factions
wanted to remove the *roff tools from the base OS, meaning the viewable
versions of the documents could no longer be produced. And removing roff from BSD is gonna make me mad.
I'm about to start
doing some work on BSD so maybe I'll make some noise. Or did the
*roff tools stick around?
roff in FreeBSD has been groff for as long as I can recall, possibly
since 4.4BSD. There has been some discussion about moving it to the
Ports Collection, but it's certainly not going away.
Greg
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