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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:18:41 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/47170: xargs(1) manpage has "utility" problems.
Message-ID:  <20030128171841.11660491.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <62of62jb8r.f62@localhost.localdomain>
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On 27 Jan 2003 17:48:04 -0800
swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote:

> Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > On an off the wall note, a recent commit removed the NW from
> > disklabel.  This may help your patch ;)
> 
> So you think I should remove NW from my re-worked manpage for 4.x?

Not really, I only wanted to be sure you were aware of the changes
in CURRENT.

> 
> I looked and CVS and didn't see them removed from 4.x code.  They
> don't work on my system, but I don't know about other architectures.
> Or do we assume that the 5.0 code will be MFC'd soon enough that
> it doesn't matter that the 4.x manpage is wrong for a while?

We shouldn't assume this.  No worries.

> 
> I was suprised to see that -N, -W, and -s were removed completely,
> so that they are errors and so it will break old scripts.  Aren't
> obsolete options usually left in as no-ops, at least for a long
> time?

Depends.  And this is a good question to ask phk ;)

--
Tom Rhodes

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