Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:19:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@rhiannon.scsn.net> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bug with moused and XFree86 Message-ID: <199610160319.XAA00322@rhiannon.scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199610160134.LAA27630@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 16, 96 11:04:11 am"
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> Donald J. Maddox stands accused of saying: > > > > Ok, that did the trick! Thanks for all the help, Jason. > > BTW... Why is there no manpage for moused? Is there anywhere <SNIP> > > As the original author of moused (no complaints please), I hereby delegate > the authoring of the moused manpage, herafter to be referred to as > moused.1, to Donald J. Maddox. > > Donald, please contact Soren and me when you have a planned release date > for this important piece of documentation. > Well, the thread leading up to this message should demonstrate that that would be a pretty poorly-informed manpage, indeed. :-) In all seriousness, though, if you took my question as some kind of "demand" for a manpage, then you read far more into it than I wrote. I ask "why is there no manpage?" because I cannot, offhand, think of any other binary on my FreeBSD machine that *doesn't* have a manpage. I cannot find a reference to moused in either the FAQ or the handbook, either. I believe that this inconsistency justifies my curiousity. I state "this lack of documentation will lead to more wasted bandwidth" because that is a self-evident fact. I appreciate the effort that you put into writing moused. I do not feel that you are in any way *obligated* to document your work. > 8) > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ -- Donald J. Maddox (dmaddox@scsn.net)
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