Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:00:15 -0600 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Message-ID: <20000116150015.K43216@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <200001162051.PAA16326@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org> <200001162051.PAA16326@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> Manual pages should not use the second person.
I hope you don't expect me go to back and change all of the
manuals that do that:
$ pwd
/usr/share/man
$ for i in man[0-9]{,aout}
> do
> cd $i
> echo -n "$i: "
> gzcat *.gz | grep -c You
> cd ..
> done
man1: 1202
man2: 7
man3: 229
man4: 60
man5: 27
man6: 33
man7: 23
man8: 104
man9: 11
man1aout: 1
And that's just those that start sentences with "You"!
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|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|You don't have to know how the computer works,
|just how to work the computer.
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