From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:02:07 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Another "craft" discussion topic - mindless tool proliferation In-Reply-To: <20170921183924.oaj23%steffen@sdaoden.eu> References: <201709191701.v8JH1vck032168@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20170919233525.k3otv5as6xi2rqht@thunk.org> <91641FC6-4CF5-4682-B8C3-8BB3DCCB208C@orthanc.ca> <20170921183924.oaj23%steffen@sdaoden.eu> Message-ID: <20170922000207.GB64682@eureka.lemis.com> On Thursday, 21 September 2017 at 20:39:24 +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Tony Finch wrote: > >> 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. There was a good reason for that. To my recollection, they hadn't been maintained At All, and they were decades out of date. While they were interesting for their historical content, as user/programmer documentation they were useless at best and misleading or dangerous at worst. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: