From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Aug 31 14:32:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D54637B400 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFF543E77 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g7VLWNF98591; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Cc: Subject: RE: misc/42172: ftp and fetch client needs an active command line option now Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:32:23 -0700 Message-ID: <000001c25135$e5263c40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020830111151.GA21615@myhakas.internal> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Congradulations, you just won the International Obfuscated Documentation Contest!! I'm so glad you pointed this out - there's way too many FreeBSD manpages that have useful information in Section 1 instead of a header with a pointer to Section 3, with several other pointers to other manpages, ad-nauseum. After all, how else do we demonstrate the multitasking ability of FreeBSD if we don't force the user to open multiple windows at once just to get the data they need. We can't have that sort of inconsistency - why just look at the manpage for the ftp client program - it doesen't even have a section 3! Instead they actually put the description of the environment variables in the ENVIRONMENT section! Oh the horrors! After all we don't want to ever see a manpage as useful as the one for "ppp" again, do we? What a disaster! Hey, maybe I should have just submitted a URL for this bug report, rather than a description of what was happening. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message