On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:52AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > 1. neither ar nor awk have manpages in Andries Bouwer's manpages package, > but I have man pages for both ar and mawk on my Debian box, so I guess I > should look a SUS first? What is the defining doc otherwise?
Andries Bouwer's man pages don't (AFAIK) cover sections 1 or 8. Man pages for commands (its a bit different than for interfaces) do sometimes differ between linux distributions because they can use totally different upstream sources for the command or they patch them differently. I have been using the SUS as the primary reference and generally using the guidelines at: http://ozlabs.org/people/cyeoh/lsb/cspec_guidelines.html to resolve conflicts. > 2. awk is probably not used on any Linux these days and has been replaced > by gawk, mawk, and nawk (possibly bawk and cawk ;-), so what should the > spec call out? Should I look for a compatable subset of features or should > we spec a particular fork, like gawk? I'm not sure about this one (opinions anyone else?). I haven't addressed the problems of language syntax extensions/differences for commands like make, awk or sed either. > If I can finish this is reasonable time, I'll take on a couple more, but > let's see how this goes first. Thats great - thanks! Regards, Chris. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
