Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] Man page

[David P. <pl...@mi...>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Markus Maier wrote:
> David Ploog wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Rachel Elizabeth Dillon wrote:
>
> I certainly wouldn't list all the the possible value for arguments, the
> output of "crawl -?" (reformatted to fit man page conventions) should
> suffice, e.g.:
>
>   -race <arg>      preselect race (by letter, abbreviation, or name)
>
> So adding this shouldn't be much of a problem, apart from the fact that
> it reintroduces the need to update the man page at least periodically,
> when new options, like most recently "-arena", are introduced

I think that's okay. It should happen more rarely than changes to the 
parameters.

> ...and that it leaves the command line options still undocumented for 
> non-Unix systems.

Was there ever man paging for Dos and Mac?

David