Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27:00PM +0200, zexel wrote: OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. A clear example of how thing should be done. I will agree with this. As will I. After years of frustration with various Linux distributions and wireless, I'd deferred dealing with

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-17 Thread Francesco Vollero
Il giorno gio, 16/07/2009 alle 22.27 +0200, zexel ha scritto: Jean-Frangois SIMON escribis: I just would like to thank the authors of the project documentation for its real quality. OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. A clear example of how thing should be done.

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-17 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:50:31AM +0200, Francesco Vollero wrote: Il giorno gio, 16/07/2009 alle 22.27 +0200, zexel ha scritto: Jean-Frangois SIMON escribis: I just would like to thank the authors of the project documentation for its real quality. OpenBSD manpages are

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-17 Thread Torbjørn H . Orskaug
Speaking of outstanding documentation in the form of manual pages, why do the preformatted GNU man pages have a right margin of ~66 characters, while the BSD ones render nicely at about 80 characters? How would I proceed to slap some GNU sense into the offending pages?

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-17 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 05:28:40PM +0200, Torbj?rn H. Orskaug wrote: Speaking of outstanding documentation in the form of manual pages, why do the preformatted GNU man pages have a right margin of ~66 characters, while the BSD ones render nicely at about 80 characters? i think this is probably

Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-16 Thread Jean-François SIMON
I just would like to thank the authors of the project documentation for its real quality.

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-16 Thread zexel
Jean-Frangois SIMON escribis: I just would like to thank the authors of the project documentation for its real quality. OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. A clear example of how thing should be done.

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-16 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27:00PM +0200, zexel wrote: OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. A clear example of how thing should be done. I will agree with this. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer)