John Sonnenschein wrote: > I've got a question about this... > > Whose responsibility is it to update the man pages and --man command > then? The people whose jobs it is to update man pages, or the people > whose jobs it is to update the command line utility? > > Basically if a new flag is added in the future for some reason, how will > one synchronize the man pages?
Usually, that's done by filing a bug against the man pages. The advantage of keeping the documentation separate is that it's in the hands of professional documentation writers, who are able to keep a consistent style across all of the system man pages. I'm with Garrett about the inadvisability of baking man page documentation into executables, but for ksh93-related things, I think that ship has unfortunately sailed. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
