[indiana-discuss] 700+ man pages added for OpenSolaris 2008.11

[Richard Elling]

Thanks Doug, IEEE, and TOG!
 -- richard

Doug Stevenson wrote:
> Sun Microsystems, Inc. has reached agreement with The Institute of 
> Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and The Open Group (TOG) 
> that allows Sun to deliver those sections of the SunOS Reference Manual 
> (man pages) that contain portions of specifications copyrighted by these 
> two organizations into the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release.  We very much 
> appreciate IEEE and TOG for their cooperation in our effort to expand 
> the scope of the documentation we are able to provide to the OpenSolaris 
> community.
>
> This agreement covers man pages that document more than 700 of the most 
> commonly used user commands and library routines. The OpenSolaris 
> community has repeatedly asked that these pages be included, and we are 
> happy to announce that we can now provide them to the community.
>
> The inclusion of these man pages brings the total number of man pages in 
> OpenSolaris to more than 5500, or 95 per cent of all man pages in the 
> SunOS Reference Manual.  We are working diligently to include the 
> remaining pages as soon as possible.
>
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