Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages

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 
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