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From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Support -Ios='OpenBSD 5.1' to override uname(3)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120525113857.GA10563@iris.usta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120525090440.GA16868@britannica.bec.de>

Hi Joerg,

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote on Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:04:41AM +0200:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:40:17AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:

>> Bob Beck definitely wanted this for man.cgi, so i have put it into
>> OpenBSD.  I'd like to push it upstream, as well; i think the problem
>> occurs in general as soon as you want to serve manuals from multiple
>> operating systems or releases from the same server.

> I don't have a problem with the feature in general, but why -I?

We have -O for output options (i.e. options bound to specific output
formats and used while generating the output), so by analogy,
this is -I for an input option (i.e.  an option bound to the specific
input format, mdoc(7), and used while parsing the input file).

Yours,
  Ingo
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      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-25 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-24 23:40 Ingo Schwarze
2012-05-25  9:04 ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2012-05-25 11:38   ` Ingo Schwarze [this message]

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