From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 2 12:19:12 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ruhr.de (ns.ruhr.de [141.39.224.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1D1237B553 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:19:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ue@nathan.ruhr.de) Received: (qmail 9749 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2000 20:18:55 -0000 Received: (from ue@localhost) by nathan.ruhr.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA08422; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:22:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ue) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:22:46 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/termcap termcap.5 src/share/man/man3 intro.3 src/usr.bin/systat systat.1 Message-ID: <20000302212246.B235@nathan.ruhr.de> References: <20000301215854.M239@nathan.ruhr.de> <200003012303.PAA87543@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003012303.PAA87543@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:03:19PM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [some cc's removed] Hi Rodney, it seems I misunderstood your first message. My impression was that you wanted to install ncurses' manpage as curses(3) and use a link to create ncurses(3). In other words, it boils down to a difference in style, namely: > And some day ncurses may be replaced. The manual pages that reference > the curses replacement of the day should just reference curses, curses > should be an indirection to what ever implementation is favored on that > day. FreeBSD uses a curses replacement with its own set of libs, includes and manpages. Why should we hide that fact in the other manpages? That's just inconsistent. And to answer your next two questions: 1) No, I don't understand nor like the fact that libcurses is a symbolic to libncurses while ncurses.h is a symbolic to curses.h. 2) Yes, I should habe included a patch to create curses.3 as a link to ncurses.3. /s/Udo -- I have learned over the years, that if it is the truth you seek, then honesty on your own part, is the best policy. That and torture. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message