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Date:      Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:16:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wouter Van Hemel <wvhemel@vub.ac.be>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/30797: YP documentation should not be in section 4
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.40.0109291202060.146-100000@cocaine.cryolabs.net>
In-Reply-To: <200109290900.f8T901091748@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Murray Stokely wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR docs/30797; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>
> To: John Heldenprogrammer Ioannidis <ji@tla.org>
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: docs/30797: YP documentation should not be in section 4
> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 01:58:59 -0700
>
>    Where do other operating systems put these manual pages?  The
>  Solaris equivalent of our yp/nis(4) seems to be nis(1).  Section 4 is
>  definitely the wrong place.  What section do NetBSD and OpenBSD use?
>

OpenBSD does not seem to have a nis man page. 'yp' is in section 8,
maintenance commands.

NetBSD has a 'nis, yp' man page also in section 8, according to their
online man pages.

Solaris 7 & 8 (SunOS 5.7, 5.8) have a 'nis+' man page in section 1.

>  	- Murray
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/ wouter


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