Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:07:26 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp> To: wosch@apfel.de (Wolfram Schneider) Cc: wosch@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/groff/tmac doc-syms Message-ID: <199703250307.TAA04950@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199703242354.AAA01830@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Mar 25, 97 00:54:25 am
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Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > Mike Pritchard writes: > >> Modified: contrib/groff/tmac doc-syms > >> Add last minute CDROM releases 2.1.6.1, 2.1.7.1, 2.2.1 to macro .Fx > >Is there any real need for this? > > All selled releases should be documented. > >There aren't any programs or > >manual pages that first appeared in one of the x.x.x.1 releases > >that didn't appear in the x.x.x release first, right? > > Yes. But the .Fx macro isn't really documentation so to speak. All that adding releases that will never actually be specified as parameters to the macro just results in more code for *roff to execute. At least .Fx isn't called that much, so it really isn't a big deal. But I can still remember running on some older systems where I would groan if I saw the message "Formatting page, please wait..." come out, due to the amount of time it took to format. Maybe we need a releases(7) or history(7) man page to document this type of thing. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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