> I guess the real bug is that we've been installing these, but never > referencing them, or telling users where they could find them... I.e. > in man vi: > ``An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi'', found in the ``UNIX > User's Manual Supplementary Documents'' section of both the 4.3BSD and > 4.4BSD manual sets. This document is the closest thing available to an > introduction to the vi screen editor. > > refers to usd/12.vi/paper.ascii.gz, but no reader of the man page would > know that... Same w/ the other docs in the same section.. I'm not sure > many users would think to go man hier to see where they are located, or > even know that they might be distributed w/ FreeBSD... > > I think the same thing applies foo memacros and others too... That the > man page provides a short reference, and that these provide a more > detailed description of what is happening... Yes, I'd also prefer to Not see a load of deletes, some of those things are expected in Unix, (aka UCB ring binder manuals on my shelf). Better to give more useful references in man/ to point to exact full paths in /usr/share. It'd make FreeBSD easier for some, & more readers could bring more fixes to keep them up to date. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.Received on Fri Oct 19 2012 - 20:42:16 UTC
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