POSIX documents and man pages

[Robert Watson]

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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