Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 02:10:10 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: man 1 eject Message-ID: <20021105020032.I87446-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20021104183704.C39772@welearn.com.au>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sue Blake wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:18:18AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > Hmm. Before we can improve the man page, we have to write it. Are > > > you confusing FreeBSD with NetBSD? > > > Greg > > I don't get it. > > Peter, I think Greg is saying that there's no man page for eject in > FreeBSD, because that program is not part of the operating system. > Perhaps NetBSD has an eject program as part of the OS, but FreeBSD does not. The manpage seems to indicate otherwise: HISTORY The eject command appeared in FreeBSD 2.X FreeBSD 4.6.2 Jul 1, 1996 FreeBSD 4.6.2 > Greg, I think Peter might have installed the sysutils/eject port and > forgotten that it was installed as an additional program. In that case > he'd need to find out who wrote the eject program and send his feedback there. > Regards, -*Sue*- > http://www.sievx.com/ I still suggest a command-line flag to do the opposite of "eject." :) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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