From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 22 12:54:30 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F1A37B401; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBD643ED8; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 12:54:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gBMKsPuB071207; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:54:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:53:46 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021222.135346.13282178.imp@bsdimp.com> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: marck@rinet.ru, dillon@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 development.7 From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200212222046.gBMKkxZZ031850@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20021222195143.P65737@woozle.rinet.ru> <20021222.133502.97851012.imp@bsdimp.com> <200212222046.gBMKkxZZ031850@apollo.backplane.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <200212222046.gBMKkxZZ031850@apollo.backplane.com> Matthew Dillon writes: : I've got a whole bunch of patch submissions building up for this. : I've already incorporated this correction in but thanks! : : Two people asked me why a man page verses a doc. The answer is simply : that an order of magnitude more people will read and use it as a manual : page verses as a doc. In fact, now that I think about it, something : we really ought to do is incorporate document access into the : 'man' system. On a similar note, I've wondered why we don't have the man pages in html form with appropriately generated indecies in /usr/share/man/html*. Lots of folks have moved beyond 'man' in the environment I have at work and like to do more web based things (they have bookmarks to people that have done these conversions even though they have man pages locally). This is different than what you are saying, but in a similar vein. I'm not sure how we'd incorporate access to handbook things into man, but don't let my poverty of imagination stop people from being innovative. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message