From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 18:59:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CC716A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:59:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A422343D67 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:59:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 410D5770; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:59:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4005776B; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:59:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:59:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Rahul Siddharthan In-Reply-To: <1101752162.41ab6762ab0b2@imp4-q.free.fr> Message-ID: <20041201105529.I59881-100000@moo.sysabend.org> X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The beastie boot menu. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:59:09 -0000 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