From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 25 16:40:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4C037B403; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A70386ACC4; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:10:30 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:10:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , Mike Pritchard , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which OS does a man page come from? (was: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 src/bin/df df.1 src/bin/domainname domainname.1 src/bin/hostname hostname.1 src/bin/ln ln.1 symlink.7 src/bin/pax pax.1 src/bin/ps ps.1 src/bin/pwd pwd.1 realpath.1 src/bin/rcp rcp.1 src/bin/sh sh.1 src/bin/sh/bltin echo.1 ...) Message-ID: <20010726091030.R42993@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010725085832.P75783@wantadilla.lemis.com> <95733.996053251@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <95733.996053251@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:27:31AM +0200 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-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 25 July 2001 at 11:27:31 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:58:32 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Then you're missing the point. This is a serious issue. If we're >> documenting FreeBSD, we should say so, we shouldn't assume that the >> man pages will only be viewed on (the same revision of) FreeBSD. > > *shrug* > > I've always been happy with accepting that FreeBSD manuals are intended > for use on FreeBSD systems. If that works for you, fine. I've demonstrated that it doesn't work for everybody. Do you see a disadvantage in having man pages contain an explicit reference to the name of the system for which they're intended? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message