Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:36:02 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conventions for FreeBSD manual pages Message-ID: <20220420093602.f38f97abc138c133d37e4166@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <921cc7c2d2ce7811c7df5dec04fb0e357fc354fd.camel@riseup.net> References: <3755196b-8803-ff72-364e-6b3b067f9702@gmail.com> <c9284898-d06a-a629-e324-1bb25178a6dd@aetern.org> <921cc7c2d2ce7811c7df5dec04fb0e357fc354fd.camel@riseup.net>
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:26:40 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote: > The OP is missing a description of a man page's structure as given by > the Linux "man man-pages". However, the manual sections are provided by > FreeBSD's "man man", too. Linux (at least Mate) also has man man, interestingly with a history section indicating it was written in 1990. I'm pretty sure the XENIX systems I used in the mid 1980s also had man man - until the manpages were printed and removed to make space for applications, discs were small in those days. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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