From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 30 7:59:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from relay05.netaddress.usa.net (relay05.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A477A14E0D for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 07:59:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 22023 invoked from network); 30 Jun 1999 14:59:49 -0000 Received: from www0s.netaddress.usa.net (204.68.24.48) by outbound.netaddress.usa.net with SMTP; 30 Jun 1999 14:59:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 5744 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Jun 1999 14:59:45 -0000 Message-ID: <19990630145945.5743.qmail@www0s.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.48 by www0s via web-mailer() on Wed Jun 30 14:59:45 GMT 1999 Date: 30 Jun 99 07:59:45 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: Konrad Heuer Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [FreeBSD Man Pages]]] Cc: Sue Blake , UEBAYASHI Masao , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer () Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Konrad Heuer wrote: > = > On 30 Jun 1999, Jesus Monroy wrote: > = > > Sue Blake wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 07:01:31PM +0900, UEBAYASHI Masao wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > = > > > > For my studying English, I think the _trick_ is that the first = > > > >word > > > > ``incorrect'' can be read as two cases. > > > > = > > > > If it was really trick, there is more stricter term of logic of > > > > science for it, but I cannot remember it now... > > > = > > > No, I don't think it's any trick. Different things are being judged= = > > > by > > > these two people, that's all. > > > = > > There is nothing to judge here. Plainly documents are incorrect > > and you are talking out your shoes (I'm trying to be nice.). > = > Still I feel very comfortable with my statement about the FreeBSD man > pages. I don't expect them to be 100% perfect. Would be nice, of course= , > but I don't claim that. If I would claim it I had to be ready to do the= > job (and I unfortunately don't have the time). Let's not forget that = > most > of the work on FreeBSD is done by volunteers. > = Okay, if you feel comfortable, I won't take that away from you, but please don't expect me to let you say we have great man pages in public. 'Cause I won't. A stiff shot of jack would be nice, but Jordan has advise me against drinking and emailing. (I still don't see how it make much of a differenc) Wait a minute, you got the time to annoy us with "gee the documentation is great", but no time for sending in spelling errors, typos, missing command line flags, = simple forgotten index. BTW, I do remember FreeBS work "is done by volunteers". I'm one of them. Please insert your foot somewhere else. --- "I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, = pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message