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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:59:11 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Mike Pritchard" <mpp@mpp.minn.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac doc-common doc-syms
Message-ID:  <199601311659.KAA09410@mpp.minn.net>

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> mpp         96/01/31 08:34:54
> 
>   Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac  doc-common doc-syms
>   Log:
>   Teach the .Os macro about FreeBSD and our releases.  E.g.
>   
>   .Os FreeBSD 2.1
>   
>   will now display "FreeBSD 2.1" at the bottom of the man page,
>   instead of just "FreeBSD".
>   
>   Added a bunch of missing standards to the .St macro.
>   
>   4.4BSD is no longer "BSD Experimental".

There are a few things I wanted to discuss about this stuff before 
doing anything else...

There are still a lot of man pages that will come up as "BSD Experimental".
That is how the ".Os" macro works if it is used without any arguments.
Unfortunately, this includes a LOT of BSD commands (echo, ls, mv, mkdir,
etc).  There are also a number of 3rd party packages that are
the same way.

Should I just remove the word "Experimental", so that any
man page that doesn't specify the operating system will come
up as "BSD"?  We can fix any 3rd party packages as we notice them.

Next, Should FreeBSD 2.2 be listed as "FreeBSD 2.2 Experimental"
or "FreeBSD 2.2 Development" or some such?  I didn't do that
with the above changes because I didn't want someone to forget to 
change it when it comes time to cut the 2.2 CD-ROM.
--
Mike Pritchard
mpp@minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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