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From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: man page/link on handbook page error
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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=3D"freebsd-5.0.0"><refentrytitle>devfs</refentry=
title>
> >     <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
>=20
> 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
--=20
FreeBSD: The Power to Serve             http://www.freebsd.org/
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