On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:22:46 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: >--On 21 August 2005 17:44 +1000, Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > >> What format(s) are acceptable for submitting minor changes to man >> pages? > >The few I've submitted have been to the input files, in the hope that >it gives jmc@ less to do by hand. > >> I assume unified diff - but against what? The man page as distributed >> (e.g. in /usr/share/man/cat?/ ?) or the file that produced that? If >> the file should be the one input to the -mdoc process, where can it be >> found? > >To find the relevant file easily, check which section the page is in, >and use e.g. 'locate ls.1' or 'locate ami.4'. Generally man pages with >an associated program are kept with that program so e.g. 'cvs diff -u >/usr/src/bin/ls/ls.1', you'll find others - drivers, system >configuration files, docs like hier(7) and vpn(8), etc - in >/usr/src/share/man. > >
Ahhh, that makes sense. Thanks. I agree that we should make less, rather than more, work for the maintainers of the docs. Which is why I am getting up to speed on the methods. roffing again after more than 25 years, who'd have thought it?! When I stop learning, I die. I am not ready to do either. ~|^ = >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over? Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.
