From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 19:40:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glow.binity.net (glow.binity.net [213.84.201.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AC837B405 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 19:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from vscan (glow.dt1.binity.net [172.23.18.1]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9491955BC; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:39:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from there (silver.dt1.binity.net [172.23.3.20]) by glow.binity.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DE5305532; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:39:54 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" From: Walter Hop Message-Id: <200203280435.42636@silver.dt1.binity.net> To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" , "FBSDQ" Subject: Re: What does Deprecated mean in man pages? Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:40:12 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by glow.binity.net (amavis-perl-11-sky2) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to Joe & Fhe Barbish, Thursday 28 March 2002 04:32] > My Webster Dictionary says > > 1 to feel and express disapproval of; plead against > 2 to belittle > 3 to try to avert by prayer > > None of these make any sense, so what is the author really trying say? Deprecated means that an utility, an option, or a language construct has become obsolete or replaced. It may still be supported right now, but likely it won't be available in the future; there are probably good reasons not to use it. -- Walter Hop | +31 6 24290808 | PGP keyid 0x84813998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message