From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 19:45:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (c-24-98-60-141.atl.client2.attbi.com [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1846937B417 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:45:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd.smnolde.com) by smnolde.com with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16qQqk-0002ha-00; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:45:18 -0500 Received: from scott by bsd.smnolde.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16qQqf-000ANo-00; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:45:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:45:13 -0500 From: "Scott M. Nolde" To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSDQ Subject: Re: What does Deprecated mean in man pages? Message-ID: <20020327224513.B39175@smnolde.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:32:23PM -0500 X-GPG_Fingerprint: 0BD6 DDB4 2978 EB60 E0C8 33F2 BC34 9087 D869 AB48 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 Joe & Fhe Barbish(barbish@a1poweruser.com)@2002.03.27 22:32:23 +0000: > 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? > > Thanks > Joe > > Webster.com has a reference to archaic, or old. Consider deprecated to be unused or replaced with something newer. -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message