From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 9 04:06:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA13314 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 04:06:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA13309 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 04:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA21030; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:09:52 +0100 (MET) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199702091209.NAA21030@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:09:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from J Wunsch at "Feb 9, 97 12:11:57 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to J Wunsch: > As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >(I wonder what people would say if we now also came up with another > > >set of man pages for already used names, for everything inside of > > >Perl. :-) > > > > I think that would be a good idea. > > Hmm, if there's something i don't like about Perl, it's its man page/ > standard documentation. Ideally, i'd love a short man page, and some > longer HTML ref. The same would probably hold for Tcl as well. Look, > the C compiler man page doesn't describe the entire C language > either... No, but it would be nice with a 'c' and/or 'c++' section with the full ANSI specification in it, for reference when wondering some things. :-) Would someone please set this up? Please? Pretty please? No? ;-) It's a nice thought, at least... # pkg_add c++-spec.tgz Oh well... enough rambling... :-) /Mikael