From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Sep 1 23:42:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20C837B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 23:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.estcard.ee (smtp.estcard.ee [194.204.11.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD4D43E3B for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 23:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vallo@estcard.ee) Received: from xyz.internal (xyz.internal [192.168.10.6]) by smtp.estcard.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA20968; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:42:19 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from vallo@estcard.ee) Received: from myhakas.internal (myhakas.internal [192.168.10.128]) by xyz.internal (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA42016; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:42:18 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from vallo@estcard.ee) Received: from myhakas.internal (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by myhakas.internal (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g826gHTM014224; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:42:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from vallo@myhakas.internal) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by myhakas.internal (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g826gHhx014223; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:42:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:42:17 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: vallo@estcard.ee, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/42172: ftp and fetch client needs an active command line option now Message-ID: <20020902064217.GA14162@myhakas.internal> Reply-To: vallo@estcard.ee References: <20020830111151.GA21615@myhakas.internal> <000001c25135$e5263c40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c25135$e5263c40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 02:32:23PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Congradulations, you just won > the International Obfuscated Documentation Contest!! Uh oh, it took so long.. I've just known to lose whatever hazard I play 8-) > I'm so glad you pointed this out - there's way > too many FreeBSD manpages that have useful information in Section 1 > instead of a header with a pointer to Section 3, with several other > pointers to other manpages, ad-nauseum. After all, how else do we > demonstrate the multitasking ability of FreeBSD if we don't force the > user to open multiple windows at once just to get the data they need. > > We can't have that sort of inconsistency - > why just look at the manpage for the ftp client program - it doesen't > even have a section 3! Instead they actually put the description of > the environment variables in the ENVIRONMENT section! Oh the horrors! > > After all we don't want to ever see a manpage as useful as the one for > "ppp" again, do we? What a disaster! > > Hey, maybe I should have just submitted a URL for this bug report, > rather than a description of what was happening. Heh, no need to be so emotional and I understand your point well, too. I did just point out the sections in case you missed. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@estcard.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message