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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. 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: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. 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.
  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...