Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:39:57 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd edition Message-ID: <19990111123957.19494.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <36976575.65AC31EB@uk.radan.com> of Sat, 09 Jan 1999 14:19:33 GMT References: <199901081848.SAA21095@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <36966EA2.2FF4@echidna.com> <36976575.65AC31EB@uk.radan.com>
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> > (The above usages of "apropos" are not what you would call obvious from the > > man page!) > > That's useful info to know. Perhaps the manpage for apropos needs > expanding? Well, I worked it out from first principles when I saw the question, so I don't think it's that hard. However, I'm sure the people in charge of the man page would consider some additional text if you wrote it -- in contrast to the chief maintainer of a commercial BSD variant who flatly refused to put something in the man page which I note has gone into the FreeBSD version. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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