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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. man, that's cool! by adrianbaugh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (Ahem.) I like man chiefly because the default (command-line) browser program doesn't suck quite so much. I'm sure there are technically superior ways to store documentation, but man is very readable. info, on the other hand, blows.

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  2. Re:bah! by bersl2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, besides GNU, who else favors info over man? I find the system difficult to navigate. For instance, when I was first learning {,ba}sh... damn, the bash info page sucks.

  3. Woot by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Now if only GNU software would stop forcing that damnable alternative "info" ( which makes about as much sense as women ) down everyone's throath, things would be nice and happy.

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  4. Examples..... by nighty5 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find the lack of examples in man pages to be a real pain....Example take a look at the crontab manual, it would be nice to see how to formulate an example to place into the crontabs. You'll find such things in Solaris.

  5. Re:XSLT to generate man pages by lewp · · Score: 2, Insightful

    XSLT? He wants easier, not harder. That's probably the one thing I wouldn't recommend he try.

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