From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 19:43:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3041237B405 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:43:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2S3hVZM069402; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:43:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2S3hVqR069397; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:43:31 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:43:30 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSDQ Subject: Re: What does Deprecated mean in man pages? Message-ID: <20020328034330.GB91501@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 27), Joe & Fhe Barbish said: > My Webster Dictionary says > > 1 to feel and express disapproval of; plead against > 2 to belittle > 3 to try to avert by prayer > > None of these make any sense, so what is the author really trying say? Defnition 1 applies. A deprecated function/command is one that still exists, but that you are discouraged from using, usually because there is a better/safer alternative. A classic example is the gets() function. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message