Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:29:51 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: man(1) was: HEADS UP: tar -l is now (intentionally) broken. Message-ID: <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com> References: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com>
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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 man > 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? Rahul
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