From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 8 12:27:19 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA20906 for current-outgoing; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 12:27:19 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA20900 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 12:27:16 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id MAA15834; Sat, 8 Apr 1995 12:26:35 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199504081926.MAA15834@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: man(1) bug To: nate@sneezy.sri.com Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 12:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504081724.LAA23173@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 8, 95 11:24:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1011 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 are outdated and are now replaced by the much better 'info' docs.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