On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:51:49PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > "Thomas Viehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Here's a random quote from the FHS: > > In addition, some large sets of application-specific manual pages have an > > additional suffix appended to the manual page filename. For example, the MH > > mail handling system manual pages should have mh appended to all MH manuals. > > All X Window System manual pages should have an x appended to the filename. > > > > The L probably stands for latex (OK, you knew that) and if they ship enough > > manpages, they might want to add a suffix. > > Okay, but then all LaTeX-related manpages should have that suffix (and > I'd prefer T for TeX, catching much more manpages). And the files should > be named accordingly, right?
If that were the case, you'd want /usr/share/man/man1/foo.1L.gz, yes. This is only really necessary if you're having problems with man page name clashes, though; and I'd prefer '1latex' or '1tex' myself. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
