Manpage interpreter

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Fri Dec 24 07:00:29 PST 2004


On 2004-12-23 22:04, David Benfell <co at trek.parts-unknown.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:02:49 -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> > I don't think there is any such thing as an interpreter, per se, but
> > if there is something confusing about a manpage, you can ask.
>
> It's even been known to happen that man pages can get revised (though
> I think my experience with this was with OpenBSD).

This happens with FreeBSD all the time too.  When something is
confusing, and the freebsd-doc team learns about it, we do try to reword
the confusing parts, even rewrite entire sections of the manpages.

The important bit here is that we have to be told what *is* confusing :)

- Giorgos



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