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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:04:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
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> I would like to see Plan 9 man support subdirs as rc does. For
> instance you can run ip/ping as a command, so why can't you look up ip/
> ping(1)? Man pages for add-ons would have their own subdirs under the /
> sys/man tree, and you would reference them with a syntax like package/
> pagename.

man already supports sections like 1a 1b 1tex or what have you.
i see no need to make life more complicated.

- erik