On Thu, 11 May 2023 07:25:07 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >Please check out this IBM Idea (aka requirement) that I just posted >regarding the OMVS Man pages and vote and/or comment > >https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3685 > It's a tough climb: It's hard enough to get IBM to conform to standards, let alone widespread prevailing conventions.
And Single UNIX says <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/man.html#tag_20_77_18>: RATIONALE It is recognized that the man utility is only of minimal usefulness as specified. The opinion of the standard developers was strongly divided as to how much or how little information man should be required to provide. They considered, however, that the provision of some portable way of accessing documentation would aid user portability. The arguments against a fuller specification were: When installing FOSS, I have directed the man pages to an NFS-exported directory, then run a script on Solaris to access every man page, ">/dev/null", rendering the nroff format into the "cat" hierarchy for viewing on MVS. Far from ideal. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
