Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 20:03:55 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Relevant manpages (was: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/ntp FREEBSD-upgrade) Message-ID: <19991209200355.A65692@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <199912091530.KAA54512@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:30:19AM -0500 References: <199912091313.FAA65601@freefall.freebsd.org> <199912091530.KAA54512@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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-On [19991209 19:36], Garrett Wollman (wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) wrote: ><<On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 05:13:26 -0800 (PST), Ollivier Robert <roberto@FreeBSD.org> said: > >> The bad news is that manpages no longer exist, everything is in HTML. I'll >> commit the text version of each HTML file in /usr/share/doc/ntp soon to have >> at least the help files w/o needing to get the entire contrib/ntp tree. > >It would be very good if one of our doco crew could resurrect the old >man pages and update them to reflect the current state of affairs. We >really don't want to be increasing the number of programs without >useful man pages. I sincerely ask someone to pick this up since I am doing work on the (new)bus manpages, the md device, the new tasklist and some other docthings. Thanks for the reminder Garrett. Now if only more kernel hackers would give -doc a nudge about some things. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl] Documentation nutter. *BSD: Technical excellence at its best... The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Atone me to my throes curtail... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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