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Man Page Project Can Now Use Official POSIX Docs

Posted by timothy on from the now-they-should-say-that-sco-cannot dept.

Martin_Sturm writes "The IEEE consortium announces in a recent press release that it granted permission to the Linux Man Page Project to incorporate material from the official documentation on the POSIX standard. Obviously this is very good news for the Man Page project which now has access to a huge amount of good documentation. Until recently the project could not use this documentation due to copyright restricions."

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  1. yay! by Ozone+Depletion · · Score: 2, Funny

    I love my man! 3

    1. Re:yay! by Paleomacus · · Score: 2, Funny

      man bind,man kill,man bash, man touch, and man finger are my favorites

  2. bah! by monkey_jam · · Score: 3, Funny

    real *nix users dont need man pages!

    1. Re:bah! by plams · · Score: 1, Funny

      real *nix user not need man!
      real *nix user need wo-man! badly!

  3. Man pages are evil... by inertia187 · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's evil because there's a deamon involved, and this command:
    $ man mount
    --
    A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
    1. Re:Man pages are evil... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      maybe you need to try these command first ...

      man date

      man strip

      i'd leave the dollar sign out that's illegal
      in most states.

    2. Re:Man pages are evil... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      Check out the complete output:
      $ man woman
      No manual entry for woman
      How appropriate.
    3. Re:Man pages are evil... by PowerPill · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes and if you: $ man pump too many times you could go blind.

    4. Re:Man pages are evil... by Feztaa · · Score: 3, Funny
      Yeah, but once you learn out how to mount, you can:
      $ mount /woman
  4. A play on "The Grumpy Man" from SNL by DarkHelmet · · Score: 3, Funny
    Real Linux hackers do not use man! They look at the source and figure out how the program works from the command line!

    And back before we had all this open-schopen source, we had to decompile our programs so that we could figure out how it works.

    And before we had fancy-shmancy C/C++, we disassembled our programs and found out how they worked from there.

    And we liked it!

    --
    /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
    1. Re:A play on "The Grumpy Man" from SNL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shhh ! You're gonna wake up one of these 3 digits slashdot ID elders. And you know how they love to speak about good ol'time...

    2. Re:A play on "The Grumpy Man" from SNL by Surazal · · Score: 2, Funny

      You know, back in *my* day, we didn't have these fancy-schmancy SCSI cables to help us write our data to disk. No, in my day, we had to write it down using burnt sticks we pulled from smoldering camp fires. Then we ran across the savana, burnt stick and all. And when we got to our destination to write that data to disk, when we got an error, we had to run all the way back to our camp and yell out at the top of our lungs "WRITE ERROR! CHECK CONDITION!" Then we had to run all the way back just to get the sense key data.

      Beat *that*!

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      --- Journals are boring; Go to my web page instead
    3. Re:A play on "The Grumpy Man" from SNL by mce · · Score: 3, Funny

      You already had disks to run to and write on? Jeez, I guess it shows that my 3-digit slashdot ID is considerably lower than yours. :-) Back when I started, we had to use our brain. That good ol'technology did save us a lot of useless running, though...

      --
      Linux user since early January 1992.
    4. Re:A play on "The Grumpy Man" from SNL by Russ+Steffen · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ach, you kids and your "brains." When I started we had to do all our thinkin' with just a few neurons at the top of our spinal chords. And we liked it! We loved it!

      Brains? Luxury...

  5. Who cares about the IEEE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do they have SCO's permission?

  6. However... by SnowZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    In return for the free content, all man pages will be required to incorporate ascii-art banner ads.

    1. Re:However... by plams · · Score: 3, Funny

      would the ads be context sensitive? you know, adapt themselves to the user's preferences?

      > man mount

      * Do you realise that 10% of all males *
      * are GAY? * * * * K-Y-Jelly in K-mart *
      * * * * only $9.95!!!1!! * * * * * * * *

      NAME

      mount - mount a file system

      SYNOPSIS

      mount [-lhV]

      mount -a [-fFnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-O optlist]
      mount [-fnrsvw] [-o options [,...]] device | dir
      mount [-fnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] device dir
      etc..

  7. Typical GNU utility man page... by compass46 · · Score: 4, Funny

    $ man cp

    "The UNIX man page system sucks. Use the info system instead."

    so...

    $ info cp

    "The UNIX man page system sucks. Use the info system instead."

  8. If one more.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If one more Slashbot makes a "DO U HAVE SCO'S PERMISSION? LOL" reference, I will touch your junk liberally.

  9. Yeah, but... by inertia187 · · Score: 5, Funny
    They still need to improve the hideous grammar of the man pages:
    $ man nothing
    No manual entry for nothing
    --
    A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
  10. What are Man pages? by Omega1045 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't understand what these "Man" pages are? Is this some sort or web pages of porn for women, is it gay? Is this trendy? Should I "like" or "groove" on "Man" pages?

    --

    Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

  11. Re:GNU info sucks. by adrianbaugh · · Score: 2, Funny

    While GNU's perfectly within its rights to call their own creation GNU/info they were getting laughed at too much when they tried to insist on GNU/HTML :-)

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