From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 6 17: 4: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054C437B401; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BD17F6ACC1; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:33:40 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:33:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: John Baldwin , Mike Pritchard , 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/bi Message-ID: <20010807093340.J69153@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010806185139.I69153@wantadilla.lemis.com> <13343.997090232@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <13343.997090232@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:30:32AM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 6 August 2001 at 11:30:32 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2001 18:51:39 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Why? What if I don't have the native OS? > > Then where did you get the source for the manuals? From a CD. Off the net. Maybe they're old, out of date man pages left behind from an upgrade install. > Come on, Greg, can't you just accept that people simply don't agree > with you, A couple don't. I suspect most don't want to get involved. > and for at least arguably valid reasons? No, I see absolutely no validity in any of the arguments. For no good reason you want to remove important parts of the documentation. > This is getting tiresome, and you're having to present some really > unlikely scenarios to prove your point. These are not unlikely scenarios. They're real life. As I said in an earlier message, I do have man pages for multiple architectures on my network. I'm sure I'm not alone. Your standpoint makes you look like you can't understand that other people may want to do things you don't. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message