CFR: Replace man/manpath/whatis/apropos with a shell script

Gordon Tetlow gordon at tetlows.org
Sat Sep 11 07:27:29 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:

> > Feedback on the man(1), manpath(1), apropos(1), and man.conf(5) manpages
> > would be appreciated. I'm new to manpage authoring and could use a
> review.
>
> you forgot the AUTHORS section in all of the man pages. ;) it's always nice
> to
> see who wrote the code by reading the man pages and not having to look at
> the
> source itself imho.
>

It felt weird to promote myself like that. I might add it. There is
certainly precedent for either way.

Gordon


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