[Bashburn-info] Mailing list

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:54:31 +0200
Anders Lindén <and...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 23:06 +0100, Nick Warne wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:32:45 +0100
> > Nick Warne <ni...@li...> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:31:17 -0400 (EDT)
> > > "Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Monday, Sep 29th 2008 at 13:22 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:
> > > > 
> > > > =>
> > > > =>I have been messing with a man page today - I really just
> > > > gleaned the =>existing docs, but I think it looks OK.
> > > > =>
> > > > =>I have attached the file - save it, then just run 'man
> > > > <path_to_file>'. =>
> > > > =>If y'all think it's OK, I will add to repository and Install
> > > > scripts. =>
> > > > =>I looked at 'man man' and presume it belongs in man(7).  It
> > > > not, please =>correct me, and I will fix up.
> > > > 
> > > > No, it should go into section 1.
> > > > Section 1. User commands
> > > > Section 2. System calls
> > > > Section 3. Runtime library calls.
> > > > Section 4. Special files
> > > > Section 5. File formats
> > > > Section 6. Games.
> > > > Section 7. Misc
> > > > Section 8. Admin and priviledged stuff.
> > > > 
> > > > There's no requirement (any more) for bb to be installed by
> > > > root and you don't have to be root to run it. It should go in
> > > > section 1.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > :-) man man gave you a description of the 'an' macro set used to
> > > > produce man pages. You do that by using the -m option to
> > > > specify the macro package you want. In this case the package is
> > > > called 'an' so that people would run groff -man for the purpose
> > > > of confusing them.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I have built the man page OK... is anybody getting my attachments?
> > 
> > OK, I ask this again  - does everybody get the attachment here, or
> > is it the SF mailing list being clever and strips it on return to
> > myself?
> > 
> 
> I'm not getting anything. Seems like attachements are stripped. (Or is
> that just me?)

The mailing list seems to have gone real tits-up.  Good job we got
there when we did, else trying to communicate with this mess would be
impossible.

Nick

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