From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 17:27:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB7937B401; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:27:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5DAC43E8A; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:27:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gray.sea.gr (patr530-b220.otenet.gr [212.205.244.228]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA61RM5D022694; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 03:27:30 +0200 (EET) Received: from gray.sea.gr (gray [127.0.0.1]) by gray.sea.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA61RHrC004150; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 03:27:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gray.sea.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA61R8VB004149; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 03:27:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 03:27:06 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: FreeBSD LIST , Peter Leftwich , DaleCo Help Desk , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manual title standards (was: man 1 eject) Message-ID: <20021106012705.GE676@gray.sea.gr> References: <20021104183704.C39772@welearn.com.au> <20021105020032.I87446-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <20021105141249.GH573@gray.sea.gr> <050201c284e3$1b3f4890$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-11-05 13:02, "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > "DaleCo Help Desk" writes: > > Peter, what in the *header* of your eject manpage? Generally, > > FBSD's own manpages show up with "FreeBSD System Manager's > > Manual", or "FreeBSD General Commands Manual", etc., etc. > [...] > There is apparently no standard on what the title should be. There are > non-FreeBSD parts (eg, named(8)) of the base OS which use the default > title. There are ports (eg, eject(1) and portupgrade(1)) which do the > same. Most of the ports I looked at have no middle portion. A few have > silly things like "FSF" (grub(8)). Some seem to be in parts of their > manual like "Ruby Programmers Reference Manual" (ruby(1)). It's probably a hell of a maintenance load to patch all those ports and keep them updated. Even for manpages that are part of the base system the developers are cautious to avoid committing changes that are trivial and will cause conflicts in later imports of the source from the vendor's releases :/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message