From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 31 10:06:00 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA65106566B for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:06:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2558FC14 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-22-218.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.22.218]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156393CDA0; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:05:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q6VA5w6a003217; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:05:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:05:58 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <20120731120558.6b992df8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <201207310945.q6V9jTBa003991@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201207310945.q6V9jTBa003991@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Reference Manual? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:06:01 -0000 On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:45:29 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > mail(1) man page mentions the Mail Reference Manual. > The only one I can find is here: > docs.freebsd.org/44doc/usd/07.mail/paper.pdf > Is this the one? The URL isn't that definitive. There's also a local version installed into /usr/share/doc/usd/07.mail as paper.ps.gz and paper.ascii.gz. The corresponding source tree item is a Makefile in /usr/src/share/doc/usd/07.mail which points you to investigate /usr/src/usr.bin/mail/USD.doc; here are the nr (nroff) source files. > In fact, perhaps it's better to merge the reference > manual into the mail(1) man page completely? Sounds possible. > Or > at least add the sources into the base OS too? A pointer to the locally installed documentation would be nice, as it belongs to the base system just like the manpage does, even if it's just mentioned in the SEE ALSO section. > I understand mail is not very popular these days, > but for me a combination of mail/mpack does all I need. Maybe it looks to you that it's not popular among users, but it's very popular among programs. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...