From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 11 2:29: 5 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA0737B404 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:28:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3661 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 10:28:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Jan 2002 10:28:59 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020111100657.GA44120@mppsystems.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:28:24 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Pritchard Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 atomic.9 Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov 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 11-Jan-02 Mike Pritchard wrote: > Ack!! We have always tried to eliminate and avoid direct troff instructions > in man pages. It makes the man page much harder to maintain, since > not only do you have to learn mdoc, you also need to know how to write > troff. I agree, I wrote that manpage and now I can't read the source cause I don't know what it means. This sure is a good way of discouraging people from writing manpages. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message