Dermot.McCluskey at Sun.COM wrote: > Joseph Kowalski wrote: > >> >> What's with the "mann" stuff? > > > From the Makefile: > # Directory in which to install manual entries for the built-in > # Tcl commands: > MANN_INSTALL_DIR = $(MAN_INSTALL_DIR)/mann > > Most of these are already installed in /usr/sfw/share/man/mann/. > > And by the way, there was a typo in my original mail: there > are not 439 manpages - there are 939! Of these, 600 are links. > By default it builds with hard links, but symlinks are probably > better. > > Or maybe something completely different needs to be done with > the Tcl/Tk manpages, eg only put the main ones in /usr/share/man > and put the main bulk, including the ambiguously named ones > that Peter refers to, somewhere else? > > - Dermot Hummm, by Solaris conventions, where would these go?
If these "commands" are equivalent to library functions, one would say man3tcl, but its far from clear that is correct. I'd feel better if these went someplace of the form "man[1-9][a-z]*", but I'm not at all sure where. Just currious, but any idea why "n"? - jek3
