POSIX documents and man pages
Robert Watson
robert at cyrus.watson.org
Tue Mar 2 17:33:19 GMT 1999
This is a far more brief and to-the point email: Does anyone know what the
general IEEE policy on man pages derived from technical specifications?
Some similarity is inherrent to the process: a technical spec is supposed
to define the behavior of a given function, its errors, arguments, etc.
So is a man page. Technical language should be concise and exact: this
limits the number of permutations that are possible (or desirable). Can I
copy the function specifications into man pages (almost) verbatim? The
perils of a documented operating system...
I have sent an email to standards at computer.org, but have not yet had a
response.
Robert N Watson
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