On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 15:23 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
On 9/19/23 7:43 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:

> Why (and when) did GNU drop the HISTORY section from its man pages?

We never had it. It originated with 4.4 BSD, and none of us picked it up.

I recently added a HISTORY section to the Linux man-pages (chapters 2 and 3), and we moved there info that was scattered across various sections.  If your plan includes man2 and man3, you could maybe just contribute some extra details to those pages' HISTORY section and you're done with that part.  We also produce a PDF book (this was done by Deri James from gropdf): <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/>.

Cheers,


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