Re: Conventions for FreeBSD manual pages

From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve_at_sohara.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 08:36:02 UTC 
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:26:40 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote:

> The OP is missing a description of a man page's structure as given by
> the Linux "man man-pages". However, the manual sections are provided by
> FreeBSD's "man man", too.

	Linux (at least Mate) also has man man, interestingly with a
history section indicating it was written in 1990. I'm pretty sure the
XENIX systems I used in the mid 1980s also had man man - until the manpages
were printed and removed to make space for applications, discs were small
in those days.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>