From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 19:57:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F0D37B405 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C34167833F; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:27:51 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:27:51 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSDQ Subject: Re: What does Deprecated mean in man pages? Message-ID: <20020328142751.K38229@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Wednesday, 27 March 2002 at 22:32:23 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > 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? Maybe he's not using Webster :-) The Oxford English Dictionary includes this meaning: To plead earnestly against; to express an earnest wish against (a proceeding); to express earnest disapproval of (a course, plan, purpose, etc.). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message