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- From: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Re: 1003.2 Status, manual page conventions ?
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:52:56 -0800
- Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
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- Submitted-by: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
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- In article <1k9b4bINN643@ftp.UU.NET>, mclemore@edsel.eng.gtefsd.com (Ken McLemore) writes:
- > i'm looking for a POSIX convention for manual pages (Section 1,2,3,4,5,8)
- > and 1003.1 alludes to 1003.2 as possibly supplying the manual page
- > conventions. does 1003.2 address this issue and what is the current status
- > of 1003.2 (eg. draft, being published, etc) ?
-
- The man utility says: "The man utility shall write information about
- each of the name operands. If name is the name of a standard
- utility, man shall at a minimum write a message describing the
- syntax used by the standard utility, its options, and operands. If
- more information is available, the man utility shall provide it in
- an implementation-defined manner".
-
- The format of the text is implementation defined, i.e. there are no
- "manual page conventions" other than for minimum content. It is
- also interesting that man does not have to provide descriptions of
- system calls or anything else that is not a POSIX.2 utility.
-
- I believe that POSIX.2 Draft 12 has already been balloted and approved
- and that it is officially an IEEE standard.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 49
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