From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 26 19:43:35 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5876314C18; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:43:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.1.2] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10y40I-000H0z-00; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 02:45:07 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10y40I-0003Mm-00; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 02:45:06 +0100 (envelope-from ben@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 02:45:06 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Greg Lehey Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: style(1) man-page !? (was Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd main.c ...) Message-ID: <19990627024506.A12925@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199906260604.AAA00680@harmony.village.org> <19990627100310.S427@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990627100310.S427@freebie.lemis.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 26 June 1999 at 10:21:59 +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > >> To get this to a productive end, i' willing to start to write a man-page >> to try to describe FreeBSD's preferred getopt style. >> >> What should its name be, style(1) ? > > There used to be a program style(1). It was for a very different > purpose. I'm attaching the page from 2.11BSD. > > Considering this is a programming thing, I'd think that style(3) would > make more sense. uh.... I may be being stupid here, but what's wrong with adding this to the already existing style(9) page, which already has a bit about getopt? That's the first place I'd look for FreeBSD code style recommendations. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message