From owner-cvs-gnu Wed Aug 30 03:19:22 1995 Return-Path: cvs-gnu-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA24353 for cvs-gnu-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:19:22 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA24330 ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:18:42 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA21988; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:16:57 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199508301016.LAA21988@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr Makefile To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:16:56 +0100 (BST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, paul@FreeBSD.org, jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <2289.809769683@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 30, 95 01:01:23 am Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1100 Sender: cvs-gnu-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > > IMHO, this is an incompatibility hack with every other BSD system in > > existence. If it is called ``sendbug'' it had better behave exactly > > like sendbug or people and shell scripts are going for a shocker. > > No more or less than if it comes back with sendbug: command not found. > > The manual pages in 4.4 just reference `sendbug' as an interactive > command you're supposed to run. In that context, and it's the major > one, I don't see a problem. > Well, really, the bug was that the docs were out of date. This is a small change and I'm not going to fight it tooth and nail but it does seem rather cludgy to link a command name to a different binary just because it's referenced in the docs when that old command had a completely different syntax and functionality. There are far, far worse problems with the docs than simply referencing sendbug. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)