man pages (was Re: ircII)

James Carlson james.d.carlson at sun.com
Fri Jun 13 13:38:47 PDT 2008


Dean Roehrich writes:
> Reviewers want to have a copy of the manpages included in the case materials
> directory.  That's a request I see fairly often, and I believe we're not
> questioning that piece.

Sure; and that's a good thing.

> However, is it not necessary to talk about the manpages anywhere else in the
> case materials?  It seems to be common practice to list them in the interfaces
> section, which, of course, is why I did so.

Referencing them is good.  But that doesn't make them "interfaces."
There aren't any other projects (other than the man page display
system) that will parse the text in the man page and do anything with
them.

As I said, tiny nit.

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