From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 04:06:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA01114 for current-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 04:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from epprod.elsevier.co.uk (epprod.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA01101 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 04:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by epprod.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA22923 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 12:05:30 +0100 Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk (actually host cadair) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Wed, 1 May 1996 12:05:36 +0100 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA23943; Wed, 1 May 1996 12:05:24 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199605011105.MAA23943@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 12:05:24 +0100 (BST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de In-Reply-To: <199604301945.FAA20003@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 1, 96 05:45:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Bruce Evans who said > > It would make things a bit harder to find. E.g., the i386 man pages are > currently linked to /usr/share/man/man* since man(1) is too stupid to find > them in machine-dependent places. I wouldn't consider man pages to be architecture dependant, not really anyway. The information may be architecture dependant but the pages aren't. I'd expect to be able to read the man pages for the whole OS regardless of which machine I was actually logged into at the time. It would be a bit of a pain if you had a problem report from someone with an i386 and you were sitting on a sparc and the i386 man pages weren't available. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155