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lynx-dev Re: [2.8.2dev.8] Revised LYPrint and ENV VARS documentation pat
From: |
Kim DeVaughn |
Subject: |
lynx-dev Re: [2.8.2dev.8] Revised LYPrint and ENV VARS documentation patch (was: Env var documentation) |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:43:55 -0800 |
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998, Klaus Weide (address@hidden) said:
|
| > > +\fIgettext\fR(GNU),
| > > +\fIwget\fR(GNU)
|
| Is the (GNU) right anywhere?
| I have wget(1), no gettext(anything).
| Debian GNU/Linux with wget, gettext, gettext-doc packages installed.
The current releases of gettext and wget available at prep.ai.mit.edu
don't have any man pages in their distributions.
I think this is part of the misguided (IMNSHO) attempt by the gnu-folk
to eliminate man pages, in favor of info pages. Both packages *do* have
info pages; also the man pages of recent releases of various gnu utility
packages, include mush-words like the following in them:
>DESCRIPTION
> This documentation is no longer being maintained and may
> be inaccurate or incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is
> now the authoritative source.
>
> This manual page documents the GNU version of ls. dir and
> vdir are versions of ls with different default output for-
| No slang man pages (do they exist?), but slang has VMS help files
| (at least it used to).
In the current 1.2.2 release of slang, there is one .hlp doc in the doc/OLD
subdir. Everything else (presumably the current docs), are in the form of
.txt files, README, etc.
Ah well, I had meant to include curses/ncurses in my previous patch anyway,
so here's a patchlet to be applied ON TOP OF my lengthy 12/09/98 patch, that
I think clarifies things.
One thing that is still missing from the man page, is a good REFERENCES
section. Perhaps someone who's familier with the various HTTP and HTML
specs, appropriate RFC's, and whatnot, could add such a section ...?
/kim
Against 2.8.2dev.8 WITH my 12/09/98 patch already applied:
diff -uNr lynx-2.8.2-dev.8.orig/lynx.hlp lynx-2.8.2-dev.8+kd/lynx.hlp
--- lynx-2.8.2-dev.8.orig/lynx.hlp Wed Dec 9 11:07:38 1998
+++ lynx-2.8.2-dev.8+kd/lynx.hlp Sat Dec 12 13:53:37 1998
@@ -756,8 +756,23 @@
Do not send the unsubscribe message to the lynx-dev list, itself.
2 SEE ALSO
- environ(7), execve(2), ftp(1), gettext(GNU), locale-
- conv(3), setlocale(3), termcap(5), terminfo(5), wget(GNU)
+ catgets(3), curses(3), environ(7), execve(2), ftp(1),
+ gettext(GNU), localeconv(3), ncurses(3), setlocale(3),
+ slang(?), termcap(5), terminfo(5), wget(GNU)
+
+ Note that man page availability and section numbering is
+ somewhat platform dependent, and may vary from the above
+ references.
+
+ A section shown as (GNU), is intended to denote that the
+ topic may be available via an info page, instead of a man
+ page (ie, try "info subject", rather than "man subject").
+
+ A section shown as (?) denotes that documentation on the
+ topic exists, but is not part of an established documenta-
+ tion retrieval system (see the distribution files associ-
+ ated with the topic, or contact your System Administrator
+ for further information).
2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Lynx has incorporated code from a variety of sources along the way.
diff -uNr lynx-2.8.2-dev.8.orig/lynx.man lynx-2.8.2-dev.8+kd/lynx.man
--- lynx-2.8.2-dev.8.orig/lynx.man Wed Dec 9 11:02:52 1998
+++ lynx-2.8.2-dev.8+kd/lynx.man Sat Dec 12 13:46:39 1998
@@ -779,15 +779,33 @@
"unsubscribe lynx-dev" as the only line in the body of your message.
Do not send the unsubscribe message to the lynx-dev list, itself.
.SH SEE ALSO
+.hy 0
+\fIcatgets\fR(3),
+\fIcurses\fR(3),
\fIenviron\fR(7),
\fIexecve\fR(2),
\fIftp\fR(1),
\fIgettext\fR(GNU),
\fIlocaleconv\fR(3),
+\fIncurses\fR(3),
\fIsetlocale\fR(3),
+\fIslang\fR(?),
\fItermcap\fR(5),
\fIterminfo\fR(5),
\fIwget\fR(GNU)
+.hy 1
+.PP
+Note that man page availability and section numbering is somewhat
+platform dependent, and may vary from the above references.
+.PP
+A section shown as (GNU), is intended to denote that the topic
+may be available via an info page, instead of a man page (ie, try
+"info subject", rather than "man subject").
+.PP
+A section shown as (?) denotes that documentation on the topic exists,
+but is not part of an established documentation retrieval system (see
+the distribution files associated with the topic, or contact your
+System Administrator for further information).
.SH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Lynx has incorporated code from a variety of sources along the way.
The earliest versions of Lynx included code from Earl Fogel of Computing
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