From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 1:50: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EC337B479 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 01:49:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.hell.gr (ppp1.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.16]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA21982 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 07:49:57 -0200 (GMT) Received: (qmail 2115 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Nov 2000 09:50:35 -0000 Message-ID: <20001105095035.2114.qmail@hades.hell.gr> From: "Giorgos Keramidas" Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 11:50:35 +0200 To: Sue Blake Cc: Gary Kline , David Johnson , Rasputin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: better man pages [was: beginners with bsd] References: <000a01c043c3$942af1e0$1d24fc3e@knapp> <20001102093329.B14637@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20001103003014.D4698@hades.hell.gr> <3A01F6D9.6320A0E5@acuson.com> <20001102170242.A14016@athena.sea.tera.com> <20001105130350.A7864@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001105130350.A7864@welearn.com.au>; from sue@welearn.com.au on Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:03:52PM +1100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:03:52PM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > I've seen people read a man page on a FreeBSD system in order to > understand the corresponding man page on another system. > We also have man pages (like forward(5)) that other systems lack. Or a different manpage for each driver in the kernel, like ed(4), xl(4), etc. which I've slowly but with a constant pace come to depend upon, and look desperately for them in other systems. Ah well, I think I'm stuck with FreeBSD for the rest of my days... :) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message