Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 09:42:17 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@estcard.ee> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: vallo@estcard.ee, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/42172: ftp and fetch client needs an active command line option now Message-ID: <20020902064217.GA14162@myhakas.internal> In-Reply-To: <000001c25135$e5263c40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <20020830111151.GA21615@myhakas.internal> <000001c25135$e5263c40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 02:32:23PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > Congradulations, you just won > the International Obfuscated Documentation Contest!! Uh oh, it took so long.. I've just known to lose whatever hazard I play 8-) > I'm so glad you pointed this out - there's way > too many FreeBSD manpages that have useful information in Section 1 > instead of a header with a pointer to Section 3, with several other > pointers to other manpages, ad-nauseum. After all, how else do we > demonstrate the multitasking ability of FreeBSD if we don't force the > user to open multiple windows at once just to get the data they need. > > We can't have that sort of inconsistency - > why just look at the manpage for the ftp client program - it doesen't > even have a section 3! Instead they actually put the description of > the environment variables in the ENVIRONMENT section! Oh the horrors! > > After all we don't want to ever see a manpage as useful as the one for > "ppp" again, do we? What a disaster! > > Hey, maybe I should have just submitted a URL for this bug report, > rather than a description of what was happening. Heh, no need to be so emotional and I understand your point well, too. I did just point out the sections in case you missed. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@estcard.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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