Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:26:35 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Christopher Johnson <more_synthehol_please@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: intro(3) and (n)curses Message-ID: <20020110142635.B98225@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020110093907.13962.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020110093907.13962.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:39:07AM -0800, Christopher Johnson wrote: > I've been working on expanding intro(3), and I was > wondering if someone would answer three quick > questions. > > 1. I understand that curses was the original terminal > library. Has FreeBSD switched over entirely to > ncurses? Is ncurses the preferred reference (eg. - 2 > paragraph of form(3X) would be '-lform -lncurses' > instead of '-lform -lcurses')? > ``ls -l /usr/lib/libcurses.a'' is your answer. > 2. Most of the (n)curses pages are listed as being > part of 3X. Since there's no intro(3X), should I > include them in intro(3)? Or would a separate > intro(3X) be preferred? > These manpages are from contributed software; they should use section 3 actually. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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