Re: Improved manual page for ul(1)

[Mark Heily <mark%heily.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:05 AM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups%ntlworld.com@localhost> wrote:

So whither does one submit an improved manual page for ul(1) ? Here's the source:

* http://jdebp.eu./Proposals/ul.1

The current FreeBSD/NetBSD manual page really doesn't describe what ul does and is even somewhat misleading.  So the aforelinked has some improvements.

I don't think putting this level of detail into the ul(1) manpage is the best approach.

Would it be better to create a new manpage in section 5 to describe the TTY-37 control sequences in all their gory detail?  You could call it tty37_control(5) or something similar.

For comparison, there is a groff_out(5) manpage that you could use as an example.

The benefit of a separate manpage for TTY-37 information is that any other commands that deal with these control sequences can have their manpages updated to refer to the tty37_control(5) manual.

 - Mark