Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:05:10 -0700 From: "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com> To: rsidd@online.fr, obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: tar -l is now (intentionally) broken. Message-ID: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com>
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>And it's worth noting that minor incompatibilities like this just >serve to annoy new users (which usually means users from linux-land). >For example, it's annoying that BSD man can't read a manpage by >specifying the full path to a filename (eg, man ./foo.1). Yeah... Why is that? It seems like it would be awfully useful to read man pages without installing them. Also, though I haven't looked at the source, it _seems_ like it would be really easy to do. What's the drawback? Many thanks in advance for your (no doubt) enlightening and entertaining answers, -- Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington Public key: http://students.washington.edu/evantd/pgp-pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = D321 FA24 4BDA F82D 53A9 5B27 7D15 5A4F 033F 887D _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
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