Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 12:26:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: nate@sneezy.sri.com Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: man(1) bug Message-ID: <199504081926.MAA15834@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199504081724.LAA23173@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 8, 95 11:24:46 am
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> > Brian Tao writes: > > On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Nate Williams wrote: > > > > > > It's in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man/*. > > > > Figures, it had to be the one incomplete archive on the mirror... > > anyway, we wait for them to fix it then? > > Nope, we are currently the only people using that code as far as I know. > They abandoned it a long time ago because (in their words) 'man pages' > are outdated and are now replaced by the much better 'info' docs. I > don't necessarily agree with it, but that's irrelevant. We need to fix > the problem since they aren't going to. Might I suggest taking a serious look at the 4.4 BSD Lite version of man. It was much improved over the Net/2 version. We would still need to go do the gzip hacks (but those are FreeBSD hacks to gnu man any way). If GNU has obsoleted gnu man, maybe we should too! > Nate -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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