[ fbsd_chat ] Re: sh(1) documentation_set

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-chat-local at be-well.ilk.org
Wed Jul 29 14:15:32 UTC 2009


spellberg_robert <emailrob at emailrob.com> writes:

> dear mr. fromme ---

>>  > man_pages need to be, at least, "substantially_complete".
>>
>> I agree that the sh(1) manual page should be complete,
>> and I think it is indeed complete.  Do you think some
>> piece of reference information is missing?
>
> ah_ha, you have arrived at my thesis.
>
> the man_page author states that it is not complete, in the first paragraph.

Not really.  What it says is that the man page is not a complete
*specification*.  That is not the same thing as being incomplete as a
user manual.  When appropriate information is noticed to be missing, it
does get added (as you can confirm from looking at the checkin log for
sh.1).


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