From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 24 16:15:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (durham0-128.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF0FD37B424 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 27753 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Apr 2001 23:13:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:13:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Mike Meyer Cc: Subject: Re: ln(1) manpage In-Reply-To: <15078.2187.658770.540065@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I wasn't necessarily talking about something 'simple' as ln(1), and yes, I know that they're the same command. I was more or less using it as an example, for a general question. -- [ Joseph Mallett ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ Proud Open/Free/Net/4.4BSD User; C Programmer; Mad ] [ www.xMach.org ] Those who dial will know its meaning: 6545666,555,666,6545666655654 On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Joseph Mallett types: > > In situations such as ln(1), where there's a symlink that makes the > > command perform differently, as is the case with 'link', wouldn't it make > > sense to move that information to link(1) manpage? Someone doing man ln > > probably doesn't care about what link does, and view versa, no? They > > could, however, have it in the '.SH SEE ALSO' section. That's what it's > > for, yeah? > > ln and link are the same command (check the inode numbers). Do you > really think we ought to have two man pages for the same command when > it's such a simple command? > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message