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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 23:37:06 +0200
From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: [Call for *quick* review] architecture-specific manpages
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mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote:

> On 15 Feb, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> [...]
> = Why not to use HW_MACHINE mib to get current arch, so it would just work [tm] w/o the
> = need to define MACHINE env variable?
>
> Because I may be interested in the man page for one architecture while
> working on the other? There should be a command line option for that
> too, IMHO...

Please read my message again. I have not implied that detection of MACHINE env variable
should be removed. I only noted that value returned by the HW_MACHINE mib is to be used
when no MACHINE env variable is defined.

-Maxim



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