Subject: Re: ntp.conf man page
To: NetBSD Users Mailing List <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/05/2007 09:40:29
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:17:15PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 10:01:22PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> |On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 10:03:29AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> |> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, matthew sporleder wrote:
> |> > Is there a reason the ntp.conf man page is missing from my netbsd
> |> > system and not available on man.netbsd.org?
> |>
> |> We don't have an ntp.conf man page. The upstream doesn't provide an
> |> ntp.conf man page.
> |
> |My _personal_ feeling is that man pages are great for a little bit more
> |help than you get with app --help. Anything more than that is best in
> |html. Perhaps mutt or links or something should be in the same install
> |set as the man system. If you're going to read docs on the box, you may
> |as well have all the tools to read the docs.
>
> I'm curious - how would mutt help in reading man pages?
I had a headache. Sorry. I meant Lynx or links.
Doug.