mdoc editing caveats?

Rich Morin rdm at cfcl.com
Sat Jun 24 03:24:22 UTC 2006


At 8:36 AM +0530 6/24/06, Joseph Koshy wrote:
>> I'm inserting "LEGACY SYNOPSIS" sections to some mdoc-based
>> man pages.
>
> What is a "LEGACY SYNOPSIS"?

Not that it's relevant to the technical question, but...

The behavior of some commands and functions is being brought
into line with POSIXish standards, but the old behavior is
still available (in "legacy" mode).  So, the client wants to
have both documented.

-r

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