From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steffen@sdaoden.eu (Steffen Nurpmeso) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:39:24 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Another "craft" discussion topic - mindless tool proliferation In-Reply-To: References: <201709191701.v8JH1vck032168@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20170919233525.k3otv5as6xi2rqht@thunk.org> <91641FC6-4CF5-4682-B8C3-8BB3DCCB208C@orthanc.ca> Message-ID: <20170921183924.oaj23%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Tony Finch wrote: |Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: |>> On Sep 19, 2017, at 4:35 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: |>> |>> If you take a look at how perl handles its man pages, with 188 man |>> pages in section 1: |> |> ... you quickly recognize the difference between a manpage (i.e. |> reference page) and a user manual. | |I think it's a shame that the non-man-page parts of the Unix documentation |set have been neglected, in that you don't often get newer programs |following the style of the USD / SMM / PSD guides. The problem being that even FreeBSD dropped them from the base system. I think only NetBSD still ships with it. And Linux never had that stuff anyway, only thanks to the dedicated Linux man-pages project it is that you have anything usable at all (when not sticking with the GLibC info manual). I do not want to be back in 1999 when i desperately searched for just about anything but copyright notices in /usr/share/doc (or /usr/doc, i forgot), and that should be /usr/share/copyrights still for most of the things. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)