Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:59:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. Message-ID: <20041201105529.I59881-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <1101752162.41ab6762ab0b2@imp4-q.free.fr>
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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > My own capacity for contributing is very limited, but some time back I > made a posting offering to try upgrade the system's man command to the > most recent GNU version (which offers the nice feature that you can > read a manpage foo.1 in your current directory with "man ./foo.1" without > installing it). As I expected, I received not a single constructive > comment, but several comments on why it was not necessary because you > can use a groff command to read a manpage page instead. In fact there > were three mails making corrections to the exact groff command required, > but the irony of expecting regular users to know all this seemed lost > on the posters. man -M . foo1.man should work (assuming FBSDs man command is POSIX compliant; I haven't tried it). No need for GNU, and the emphasis over the last few years is less gnu in the base system, not more. I'm merely a 10 year FreeBSD user, not a developer. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
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