From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 07:30:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241F116A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:30:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E94A43D46 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:30:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id 93FD311959; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:30:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 09:30:12 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Rahul Siddharthan Message-ID: <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> References: <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man(1) was: HEADS UP: tar -l is now (intentionally) broken. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:30:28 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.08.04 00:29:51 -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Evan Dower said on Aug 3, 2004 at 14:05:10: > > >And it's worth noting that minor incompatibilities like this just > > >serve to annoy new users (which usually means users from linux-land). > > >For example, it's annoying that BSD man can't read a manpage by > > >specifying the full path to a filename (eg, man ./foo.1). > > > > Yeah... Why is that? It seems like it would be awfully useful to read m= an > > pages without installing them. > > I was wrong about calling it BSD man... it's GNU man, but a much older > version than what current linux systems ship. > > I can work on a patch for this specific feature when I get some time. > Before I start, is there any reason people may think this is a bad > idea? Well, it can be done without a patch... I use the following tcsh alias so I can just write 'manf foo.1' : groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mandoc !^ | less --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBEJCDh9pcDSc1mlERAsprAJ4vps94PJZFZAo0vT6vSWHUg/dcZgCfZeYz GF+1pO0L6KGr/WiQ5JCECF0= =R8Mt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--