Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 02:00:04 -0700 (PDT) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: docs/1249: incorrect manpages Message-ID: <199605250900.CAA21169@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/1249; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: coredump@nervosa.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/1249: incorrect manpages Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 10:23:35 +0200 (MET DST) As Chris J. Layne wrote: > Some manpages list the OS as NetBSD when it should be FreeBSD > > .\" $NetBSD: msgctl.2,v 1.1 1995/10/16 23:49:15 jtc Exp $ > .\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project > .Os NetBSD The first two occurences are right -- these man pages (or even entire programs, as for lint(1)) have been taken from NetBSD. So the $NetBSD$ and the copyright is ok. For the .Os macro -- it's IMHO best to omit the system name unless some tool/man page/etc. is very specific for a particular system. Neither the SysV msg stuff nor lint are. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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