On Thursday, 21 September 2017 at 20:39:24 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
I think it's a shame that the non-man-page
parts of the Unix
documentation set have been neglected, in that you don't often get
newer programs following the style of the USD / SMM / PSD guides.
The problem being that even FreeBSD dropped them from the base
system.
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been maintained At All, and they were decades out of date.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were interesting for their historical content, as user/programmer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.
Greg
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