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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:48:20 -0600
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: docs/14563: Wrong manpage produced by `man 4 fd'
Message-ID:  <19991213184820.K868@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912130950.BAA02782@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199912130950.BAA02782@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>  I agree completely, but `man 4 fd' *should* yield a man page that talks
>  about floppy disk device files... *not* one that talks about UNIX file
>  descriptors.  (You can just trash the one that talks about file descrip-
>  tors as far as I'm concerned.  If people want to know about those, they
>  should go buy a general book about UNIX/C programming.)

   Or it could be the other way:  You could trash the man page
for the disk driver.  If people want to know about those, they
can buy a Unix book or read the source code.

   It works both ways.

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Customer: A primitive life form at the bottom of the food chain.
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