22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
12:39 a.m.
Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
|Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
|>> On Sep 19, 2017, at 4:35 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> wrote:
|>>
|>> If you take a look at how perl handles its man pages, with 188 man
|>> pages in section 1:
|>
|> ... you quickly recognize the difference between a manpage (i.e.
|> reference page) and a user manual.
|
|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. I think only NetBSD still ships with it. And Linux never
had that stuff anyway, only thanks to the dedicated Linux
man-pages project it is that you have anything usable at all (when
not sticking with the GLibC info manual). I do not want to be
back in 1999 when i desperately searched for just about anything
but copyright notices in /usr/share/doc (or /usr/doc, i forgot),
and that should be /usr/share/copyrights still for most of the
things.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)