Why did v9 or v10, whichever it was, switch from using minus signs to
using hyphens for options?
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have no idea
how to measure the frequency of the latter, but i guess it is
very rare. Regarding commercial UNIX systems, i do not have
access to any of them except Solaris.
Always forgetting us poor Plan 9 users …
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cerned, the
suffixes just aren’t allowed to contain periods themselves.
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can't
find much to say.
I understand. I wonder where such documentation might be appropriate
today—I wish for future me to have an easier time finding information.
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. The meaning of the arguments
is now:
01 trace numeric arguments (default on)
02 trace requests
04 trace macros
[…]
`.gd xx` sets number registers dn and dl to the size of diversion xx.
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of
any release prior to the fourth edition, though it appears there should
be no legal impediment to their distribution[1].
They can be downloaded from https://p9f.org/dl/index.html .
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lying,
I would have found you having found links already.
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lan 9 in the devutf device. The
files are dated 1993-01-04.
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Content-Type: application/x-troff-man
Fun fact: There is text/troff. See RFC 4263. This could be something
like `text/troff; process=-man`.
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Personally, I’d much rather see a KWIC permuted index of the NAME
sections. (At least some of mentioned Programmer’s Manuals have that
too.)
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all with -man. (That doesn’t seem like a better
imagination though.)
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ut on the standard output stream
.IR stdout .
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to refer to the man page itself, you can use wording
like q.v. If you want to refer to the thing described, you can fight
for a consensus by using the one and only correct .I. (Or .MR could be
changed with only one or an empty second argument to not emit
parentheses.)
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going to change anymore and to a number of people,
me included, “Plan 9 troff” sounds like someone meant “9front troff”.
That’s confusing.
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, but still inconsistent with p9p -man. There,
you’d do
.MR ls (1) .
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