Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:19:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@rhiannon.scsn.net> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86 Message-ID: <199610160319.XAA00322@rhiannon.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199610160134.LAA27630@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 16, 96 11:04:11 am"
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> Donald J. Maddox stands accused of saying:
> >
> > Ok, that did the trick! Thanks for all the help, Jason.
> > BTW... Why is there no manpage for moused? Is there anywhere
<SNIP>
>
> As the original author of moused (no complaints please), I hereby delegate
> the authoring of the moused manpage, herafter to be referred to as
> moused.1, to Donald J. Maddox.
>
> Donald, please contact Soren and me when you have a planned release date
> for this important piece of documentation.
>
Well, the thread leading up to this message should demonstrate that
that would be a pretty poorly-informed manpage, indeed. :-)
In all seriousness, though, if you took my question as some kind
of "demand" for a manpage, then you read far more into it than I
wrote.
I ask "why is there no manpage?" because I cannot, offhand, think
of any other binary on my FreeBSD machine that *doesn't* have a
manpage. I cannot find a reference to moused in either the FAQ or
the handbook, either. I believe that this inconsistency justifies
my curiousity.
I state "this lack of documentation will lead to more wasted
bandwidth" because that is a self-evident fact.
I appreciate the effort that you put into writing moused. I
do not feel that you are in any way *obligated* to document your
work.
> 8)
>
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