From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 10 4:26:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D477E37B404 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 04:26:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g0ACQZb99779; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:26:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:26:35 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Christopher Johnson Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: intro(3) and (n)curses Message-ID: <20020110142635.B98225@sunbay.com> References: <20020110093907.13962.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020110093907.13962.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i 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 Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:39:07AM -0800, Christopher Johnson wrote: > I've been working on expanding intro(3), and I was > wondering if someone would answer three quick > questions. > > 1. I understand that curses was the original terminal > library. Has FreeBSD switched over entirely to > ncurses? Is ncurses the preferred reference (eg. - 2 > paragraph of form(3X) would be '-lform -lncurses' > instead of '-lform -lcurses')? > ``ls -l /usr/lib/libcurses.a'' is your answer. > 2. Most of the (n)curses pages are listed as being > part of 3X. Since there's no intro(3X), should I > include them in intro(3)? Or would a separate > intro(3X) be preferred? > These manpages are from contributed software; they should use section 3 actually. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message