Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 11:16:56 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, paul@FreeBSD.org, jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/send-pr Makefile Message-ID: <199508301016.LAA21988@server.netcraft.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2289.809769683@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 30, 95 01:01:23 am
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > > IMHO, this is an incompatibility hack with every other BSD system in > > existence. If it is called ``sendbug'' it had better behave exactly > > like sendbug or people and shell scripts are going for a shocker. > > No more or less than if it comes back with sendbug: command not found. > > The manual pages in 4.4 just reference `sendbug' as an interactive > command you're supposed to run. In that context, and it's the major > one, I don't see a problem. > Well, really, the bug was that the docs were out of date. This is a small change and I'm not going to fight it tooth and nail but it does seem rather cludgy to link a command name to a different binary just because it's referenced in the docs when that old command had a completely different syntax and functionality. There are far, far worse problems with the docs than simply referencing sendbug. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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