From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Project Idea: The UNIX Programmer's Manual: Heritage Edition
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:56:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230920195635.GG28844@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP2nic1oYLQRfn1v81hTOGuJyce68U7Srxu_w+WsATHBrXjSug@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 07:25:13PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
> Yeah, I'm less angry at GNU now--I didn't search as hard, but when I found
> out 4.3BSD didn't have HISTORY (and neither does 2.11BSD, which is still
> actively-ish maintained) then I figured it wasn't something classical that
> GNU dropped, just never imported. I feel like it existed on SunOS and
> Solaris but I might be wrong about that? Was it really FreeBSD that
> introduced it?
I don't think SunOS had it. The SunOS man pages were pretty terse, the
powers that be wanted just the facts. I remember get beat up for putting
examples in some of the man pages I wrote, they got taken out "because
examples are for user guides, man pages are not user guides, they are a
reference guide" or something like that.
I like examples in man pages, I think it jump starts you into using the
program more easily but maybe that's just me.
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Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
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2023-09-19 20:32 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-19 23:39 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2023-09-20 1:26 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-20 1:30 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-20 14:57 ` Warner Losh
2023-09-20 15:40 ` Dan Cross
2023-09-20 2:09 ` Clem Cole
2023-09-20 2:25 ` Adam Thornton
2023-09-20 2:50 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-20 19:56 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-09-20 20:52 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-09-20 22:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-09-21 4:09 ` Wesley Parish
2023-09-21 13:08 ` John P. Linderman
2023-09-21 0:26 ` Marc Donner
2023-09-21 3:06 ` Adam Thornton
2023-09-21 3:30 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-09-21 3:48 ` Phil Budne
2023-09-21 13:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-20 21:15 ` Alan Coopersmith
2023-09-21 3:49 ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-09-19 23:43 ` Adam Thornton
2023-09-20 13:23 ` Chet Ramey
2023-09-20 14:12 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2023-09-19 23:47 ` KenUnix
2023-09-20 6:16 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2023-09-20 7:19 ` markus schnalke
2023-09-21 15:53 ` Kenneth Goodwin
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