From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 9 08:43:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA23483 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 08:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gbdata.com (tel_ppp0022.livingston.net [207.22.211.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA23473 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 08:43:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id KAA08070; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:44:31 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199702091644.KAA08070@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:44:31 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from J Wunsch at "Feb 9, 97 04:30:47 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > Maybe Poul's idea isn't too bad, to split the Perl manual by > functions, and drop them into a separate section. This could easily > be the last section in the search order (Perl bigots are free to put a > MANSEC in their environment moving it earlier), something like section > `p'. But still i think, an HTML ref would be better, there you can > search either by function name or by function group. But then, i > really want the small and terse man page back! :-) > cheers, J"org Hello, The pod system can generate html. (I use them here.) Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii