On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:16:21AM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:20:31PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > Ntpd had perfectly good man pages until someone decided that html
> > was the way to go and removed them. This is a pity, because it is
> [...]
> > those pages is unfortunately out of date. If you agree with me that
> > ntpd should have man pages, please send mail to the maintainers and
> > let them know. Perhaps if enough people speak up they will change
> > their mind!
> 
> Any software bundled with "base" should have man pages.  (It's a real
> pain to install from a serial console or text terminal when all that's
> available is html help.)
> 

Agreed since there's no lynx in base.

Just checked on Debian (that has a policy that every app has to have
some sort of man page).  Their ntpd(8) is from 1999 and it says it was
abstracted from the html documentation.

Doug.