Re: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: /usr/bin/rst2man: rst2man: .TH 5th field shouldn't be empty)

2022-11-16 Thread Andries E. Brouwer
> On 9/7/22 00:13, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > > I've seen sporadically references to the numbers as chapters, probably > > > > from when the manual was a proper book, but that term seems to have > > > > fallen in use. Unix Programmer's Manual (4.2 BSD) August, 1983 Volume 1 Chapter I: Comman

Re: Ping^1: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: /usr/bin/rst2man: rst2man: .TH 5th field shouldn't be empty)

2022-12-12 Thread Andries E. Brouwer
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 07:19:22AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > The 4.2BSD provenance is particularly valuable, in that it illustrates > how the terminology was retained Earlier I replied and showed a snapshot of the history. Contemporary: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi All Sections

Re: Linux man-pages prehistory

2022-12-15 Thread Andries E. Brouwer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 04:24:31PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm pleased to announce that there's a new branch in the git repository, > named 'prehistory', which covers exactly that. Good! I have one question: did you preserve the time stamps? > P.S.: Andries, do you know an