From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 22 13: 0:34 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 29D4437B406; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:00:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57ED43ED8; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from moble.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBML0CNN070113; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:00:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:00:39 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 development.7 Message-Id: <20021222160039.18fcf550.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021222.135346.13282178.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20021222195143.P65737@woozle.rinet.ru> <20021222.133502.97851012.imp@bsdimp.com> <200212222046.gBMKkxZZ031850@apollo.backplane.com> <20021222.135346.13282178.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) 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 On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:53:46 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > 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 > Blaspheme! -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message