Date: 29 Jun 1998 11:47:16 +0200 From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Draft manpages available for review Message-ID: <rx4iulko7yz.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:16:02 %2B0100 (BST) References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980629091055.1385I-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes: > > Some man pages do not have 'Return Values' sections. > > [...] > I didn't bother with a 'Return Values' section for functions which were > void or where the return value was described in the 'Description' section. Bzzzt, if you basically know what the function does but are unsure about the return values, having a separate RETURN VALUES section is very useful since it makes finding this information much quicker. DES (who can never remember what fgets() returns...) -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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