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On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, 15:23 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
On 9/19/23 7:43 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:

> Why (and when) did GNU drop the HISTORY section from its man pages?
We never had it. It originated with 4.4 BSD, and none of us picked it up.

I recently added a HISTORY section to the Linux man-pages (= chapters 2 and 3), and we moved there info that was scattered across variou= s sections.=C2=A0 If your plan includes man2 and man3, you could maybe just= contribute some extra details to those pages' HISTORY section and you&= #39;re done with that part.=C2=A0 We also produce a PDF book (this was done= by Deri James from gropdf): <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/= docs/man-pages/book/>.

Cheers,


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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0``Ars longa, = vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU=C2=A0 =C2=A0 chet@case.edu=C2=A0 =C2=A0 http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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