[desktop-discuss] Re: [companion-discuss] Proposing /usr/gnu, 2

[Stephen Hahn]

* Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> [2006-05-02 10:56]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> >* Sharon Veach <sharon.read at sun.com> [2006-05-02 10:40]:
> >
> >>Still true re man pages.  No sections names with capital letters.
> >>See 6200141.  The request will be filled by creating an sman3xtsol 
> >>directory.
> >>The man pages within the directory, however, can be <manpagename>.3Xtsol
> >
> >
> >  Thanks--I don't actually believe there is a tools conflict.
> >
> >  The case proposes /usr/share/man/man1gnu as the path, with "1G" as the
> >  name of the section in the text. 
> 
> Why?  Won't that just confuse users when man -s 1G diff doesn't work and 
> they
> need to do man -s 1gnu diff to see diff(1G)?

  1GNU.

  Apparently I have a recurring typo lodged between my brain and my
  wrist.  

  - Stephen

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Stephen Hahn, PhD  Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
stephen.hahn at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/sch/