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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:23:29 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 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:  <20010726092329.A21070@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3744.996104972@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:49:32AM %2B0200
References:  <20010726091030.R42993@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3744.996104972@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>

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On Thursday, 26 July 2001 at  1:49:32 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:10:30 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> If that works for you, fine.  I've demonstrated that it doesn't work
>> for everybody.  Do you see a disadvantage in having man pages contain
>> an explicit reference to the name of the system for which they're
>> intended?
>
> Name, no.  Version, yes.

And it would be?

Greg
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