Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:28:24 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 atomic.9 Message-ID: <XFMail.020111022824.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020111100657.GA44120@mppsystems.com>
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On 11-Jan-02 Mike Pritchard wrote: > Ack!! We have always tried to eliminate and avoid direct troff instructions > in man pages. It makes the man page much harder to maintain, since > not only do you have to learn mdoc, you also need to know how to write > troff. I agree, I wrote that manpage and now I can't read the source cause I don't know what it means. This sure is a good way of discouraging people from writing manpages. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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