From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 9 15:52:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19930 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA19918 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 15:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA04630 for freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:52:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id AAA16086; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:47:06 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 00:47:06 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order References: <199702092139.OAA06583@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199702092229.JAA03396@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702092229.JAA03396@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>; from David Dawes on Feb 10, 1997 09:29:40 +1100 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Dawes wrote: > Another way to deal with this is what is done on SunOS. For example, > the Fortran man pages end in '.3f'. For example, 'man free' gets me the > standard 'C' version of the man page, while 'man 3f free' gets me the > Fortran version. As long as we don't adopt the SCO way. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)