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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tardy man-pages Date: 22 Oct 1996 23:37:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <54jls7$k3o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DznpMs.MqJ@news2.new-york.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote: > I just got the new Complete FreeBSD book with 540 pages of man pages. > I note that the man pages for sh speak of the release of 4.4BSD as > coming in the future...when will this be revisited and revised? Certainly never... Well, how about this: Find 20 more of this, promise us to fix all of them (plus other things in the future), and bang!, you'll immediately get commit privileges for this! :-) Ehm, no kidding... simply do it! > Did it gte the hoped-for PIOSIX compliance? Certainly not. However, Steve Price did a very fine job in cleaning up several bugs in the shell recently. I think it's doing much better now, without being that monstrous as some other /bin/sh clones ;) are... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)