Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:15:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Subject: Re: [Re: [FreeBSD Man Pages]] Message-ID: <199906301115.HAA10597@smtp4.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <19990630100355.2966.qmail@nwcst312.netaddress.usa.net>
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On 30-Jun-99 Jesus Monroy wrote: > Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 02:28:16AM -0700, Jesus Monroy wrote: >> > Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> wrote: >> > > >> > > To my mind *one* of the points where FreeBSD is really good are >> > > the man >> > > pages. I don't have a proposal how to use this fact for promoting >> > > FreeBSD, >> > > but my intention is to mention that strength of FreeBSD here. >> > > >> > Very incorrect. Just a few days ago I show that 15% >> > of the online whatis(1) and man(1) records where >> > incorrect. >> >> For one definition of "incorrect". What you showed does not detract >> from the point that Konrad is making. >> >> > Wait a minute. Where is this arrogant attitude coming from! > The results plainly should wrong pages index, bad references > and missing descriptions. > > Please explain your idea (or definition of "correct"). > (Please note I know where all the IEEE papers are on > correct. So think this through before you popoff.) Relatively speaking they are a heck of a lot better than manpagse for some commercial Unices. They may not be perfect, but they're a heck of a lot closer.. and that was the original poster's point, which your survey has nothing to do with. --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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