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Re: CVS commit: src/bin/sh



On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 18:45:12 +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Robert Elz wrote:
> 
> >     Date:        Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:24:55 +0300
> >     From:        Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
> >     Message-ID:  <20180316142455.GF3278%pony.stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
> > 
> >   | mdoc.samples(7) is a very handy reference.
> > 
> > For me that is the same as mdoc(7) (a copy of the same
> > man page) - is that what is intended (I see mdoc.samples(7) has
> > 2 links - I did not chase down and find what the other is, except
> > to know it is not mdoc(7) which is a copy)
> 
> This reminds me actually; I noticed a while ago that mdoc(7) is actually a 
> copy (as you suggest) of groff_mdoc(7) whereas the mdoc.samples(7) Valery 
> suggests is a link to groff_mdoc(7)
> 
> but as far as I know we don't use groff for our mandoc anymore.. we also 
> have mandoc_mdoc(7) which I think would be the correct manpage for the 
> mandoc(1) implementation we use. Is it time to switch these around?

We don't use groff for man(1).  I do use groff for postscript output
quite a bit (mandoc postscript output is subpar).

Actually, since mdoc.samples(7) is BSD licensed I'd prefer that we
ship it even if we drop groff.

-uwe


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