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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:07:06 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "types" man page
Message-ID:  <20011025190706.D41293@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpadyhylgl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:52:26PM %2B0200
References:  <XFMail.011024095346.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <xzpadyhylgl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:52:26PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > On 24-Oct-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> writes:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:43:19PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > > >  2) in what section would such a man page belong?
> > > > 7 or 9?
> > > It's definitely not kernel-only, so I don't think 9 is appropriate; 7
> > > would be a last resort if we can't think of anything better.
> > 7 is good to me it seems.  See operator(7), ascii(7), etc.
> 
> Right.  What do we do with types(5)?  Leave it alone, nuke it, or
> repo-copy it to types(7)?  (I don't see much point in the latter as
> there would be very little in common between the two)
> 
Nuke types(5).  Noone is referencing it.

> Ruslan, do you have a suggestion for the proper mdoc incantations for
> a types(7) entry, based on the items I listed in my original mail?
> 
Just give me an example entry, and I will mark it up as needed.

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