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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:08:51 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: man page/link on handbook page error
Message-ID:  <20011126190851.F34313@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011126084805.A41089@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:48:05AM -0500
References:  <000801c172c8$8b4dc540$1600a8c0@test2> <20011120154504.A14999@blackhelicopters.org> <20011120154913.C10974@databits.net> <20011120155301.A15092@blackhelicopters.org> <20011126131728.B34313@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20011126084805.A41089@blackhelicopters.org>

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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:48:05AM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:17:28PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> >   <citerefentry vendor="freebsd-5.0.0"><refentrytitle>devfs</refentrytitle>
> >     <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
> 
> It seems that we're looking at a search-and-replace-fest with every
> release.

Not necessarily.  Only when you're referring to a feature of a specific
release.

99.9% of the time you just need to refer to ls(1).  It's that remaining
0.1% of the time when you need to refer to (for example) colour support,
that was introduced in a specific version.

N
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