From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 22 1:57:43 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mppsystems.com (mppsystems.com [208.210.148.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0F337B405; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mppsystems.com) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mppsystems.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6M8vX902957; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 03:57:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 03:57:33 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 src/bin/df df.1 src/bin/domainname domainname.1 src/bin/hostname hostname.1 src/bin/ln ln.1 symlink.7 src/bin/pax pax.1 src/bin/ps ps.1 src/bin/pwd pwd.1 realpath.1 src/bin/rcp rcp.1 src/bin/sh sh.1 src/bin/sh/bltin echo.1 ... Message-ID: <20010722035733.A1683@mppsystems.com> References: <200107101004.f6AA49e06877@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010711081534.C64441@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010711102212.B24098@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010711102212.B24098@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:22:12AM +0300 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 Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:22:12AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:15:34AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 10 July 2001 at 3:04:09 -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > ru 2001/07/10 03:04:09 PDT > > > > > > Modified files: > > > bin/cp cp.1 > > > bin/sync sync.8 [...] > > > Log: > > > mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call. > > > > Why? I find this information interesting. > > > Reason 4. > > This was asked for many times by various -doc guys, including Mike Pritchard > and Sheldon Hearn , IIRC. Last time > in the late of 2000, when I started to work on -mdocNG, which we currently > use. I agreed to it, never requested it. At the time I suggested that if all we are going to have is a plain ".Os" line in every man page with no information, then we should just remove ".Os" totally, since it it just taking up space and processing time. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message