Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:04:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Which OS does a man page come from? (was: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 src/bin/df df.1 src/bin/domainname domainname.1 src/bin/hostname hostname.1 src/bin/ln ln.1 symlink.7 src/bin/pax pax.1 src/bin/ps ps.1 src/bin/pwd pwd.1 realpath.1 src/bin/rcp rcp.1 src/bin/sh sh.1 src/bin/sh/bltin echo.1 ...) Message-ID: <20010724090443.L55779@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010723122124.A79427@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:21:24PM %2B0300 References: <200107101004.f6AA49e06877@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010711081534.C64441@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010711102212.B24098@sunbay.com> <20010722035733.A1683@mppsystems.com> <20010723122124.A79427@sunbay.com>
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On Monday, 23 July 2001 at 12:21:24 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:57:33AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: >> >> I agreed to it, never requested it. At the time I suggested >> that if all we are going to have is a plain ".Os" line in every man >> page with no information, then we should just remove ".Os" totally, >> since it it just taking up space and processing time. > > Historically, a missing .Os call would result in an empty bottom left corner. > With -mdocNG, as of this delta, > > <snip> > > the .Os call is not (strictly speaking) required at all, so we may > eventually remove it completely, yes. I think I will do this after > NetBSD and OpenBSD upgrade to -mdocNG. How would this handle non-native man pages? I have a whole collection of man pages for different operating systems on my system. I don't want the formatting software to claim that they relate to the system on which they're formatted. It looks to me as if the .Os should explicitly specify which operating system the man page belongs to. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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