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To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Which OS does a man page come from? (was: cvs commit: src/bi 
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>,
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2001 17:03:42 +0930."
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 02:11:55 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20010807170342.J1565@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes:
: On Tuesday,  7 August 2001 at  9:29:41 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
: > On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 09:33:40 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
: >
: >> 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.
: >
: > So, like... what's your solution, specifically?
: 
: As I said: we add the .Os and .Dd when installing.

How is that different than just copying the mandoc macros that were
used to build the man pages from the {cd, network, wherever} you got
the man page sources from?

Adding the .Os and .Dd at install time seems ugly to me.

Warner

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