Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:02:39 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030311050239.GG79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> In-Reply-To: <20030311045239.GA4369@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20030310195323.GA2812@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030310204035.GU79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030311045239.GA4369@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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> Actually, I was thinking of the fact that properly laid out DocBook
> can be converted into a (slightly more concise) mdoc file. I have
> nothing against a manpage listing all of the sysctls, but I think
> that centralizing the information in an SGML-based format would be
> much more useful in the long run. And since you can make a manpage
> out of that, the only disadvantage I see is the extra work to put
^^^^^^^^^^
I don't disagree with 'ya in any way, shape, or form, it's just that
the "extra work" bit isn't likely to be trivial and I don't want it to
stand in the way of being able to type "man 5 sysctl" and get some
kind of help as to what each sysctl MIB means.... but I'd love to be
proven wrong. :) -sc
> together the DocBook stuff and figure out how to do the conversion.
--
Sean Chittenden
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