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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:13:46 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 devsw.9 major.9 minor.9 umajor.9 uminor.9 vn_isdisk.9
Message-ID:  <20010711081346.B64441@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010710104921.A60485@colnta.acns.ab.ca>; from davidc@acns.ab.ca on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:49:21AM -0600
References:  <200107100725.f6A7PI652032@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010710073050.4F2D33E32@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010710024604.M1894@sneakerz.org> <20010710104921.A60485@colnta.acns.ab.ca>

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On Tuesday, 10 July 2001 at 10:49:21 -0600, Chad David wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:46:04AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> * Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> [010710 02:30] wrote:
>>> Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>> alfred      2001/07/10 00:25:18 PDT
>>>>
>>>>   Added files:
>>>>     share/man/man9       cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 devsw.9
>>>>                          major.9 minor.9 umajor.9 uminor.9
>>>>                          vn_isdisk.9
>>>
>>> This is great stuff, but wouldn't it be better to merge some of these
>>> into one man page?  Stuff like major.9 and minor.9 definitely don't
>>> below in separate files.  Same for umajor/uminor and
>>> cdevsw_add/cdevsw_remove.  Same might apply to some of the other man
>>> pages (I thought I saw something similar, but can't recall right now.)
>>
>> I'm not much of a fan of overcrowded manpages, however you do have
>> good point.  I'll leave it to Chad to make that call.
>
> I'm not really sure what I like.  I don't really like how FreeBSD formats
> [some] large man pages (I need to take another look at AIX as I recall
> I liked that way they did it).

I've just recently set up an AIX box.  I don't like the format, and
it's so different from our (somewhat strict) rules that I don't think
you have a hope of getting it accepted.

Greg
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