From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 23:10:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68AB37B401; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F64F43E4A; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:10:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B7532856; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 02:10:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (VaMailArmor-2.0.1.7) id 89472-765736B9; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 02:10:11 -0500 Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E73A32835; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 02:10:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 02:10:10 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: pete@earl-grey.cloud9.net To: Sue Blake Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: man 1 eject In-Reply-To: <20021104183704.C39772@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: <20021105020032.I87446-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.7; VAE: 6.16.0.0; VDF: 6.16.0.11; host: russian-caravan.cloud9.net) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sue Blake wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:18:18AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > Hmm. Before we can improve the man page, we have to write it. Are > > > you confusing FreeBSD with NetBSD? > > > Greg > > I don't get it. > > Peter, I think Greg is saying that there's no man page for eject in > FreeBSD, because that program is not part of the operating system. > Perhaps NetBSD has an eject program as part of the OS, but FreeBSD does not. The manpage seems to indicate otherwise: HISTORY The eject command appeared in FreeBSD 2.X FreeBSD 4.6.2 Jul 1, 1996 FreeBSD 4.6.2 > Greg, I think Peter might have installed the sysutils/eject port and > forgotten that it was installed as an additional program. In that case > he'd need to find out who wrote the eject program and send his feedback there. > Regards, -*Sue*- > http://www.sievx.com/ I still suggest a command-line flag to do the opposite of "eject." :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message