On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:32:44PM -0700, David.Comay at sun.com wrote:
> >Just currious, but any idea why "n"?
>
> I suspect for "new" versions of commands. The 2BSD/4BSD section
> numbers I think used "n" for new programs ("mano" for old, "manl" for
> /usr/local things, etc.)
Yeah. I've always interpreted its use in tcl/tk as "we don't want to make
a decision for you as to what section they should go in, and we don't feel
comfortable making a subsection, so we're going to stick it somewhere that
probably exists but no one uses". It's always struck me as the sort of
thing that system integrators should change -- and when I built my own
linux distro by hand, I always stuck them in section 3 (or 3tcl and 3tk),
but I don't know of any distro that actually does that. I don't think it
would be a horrific idea, though, and it would mean that "man open" would
get most people what they actually wanted.
Danek
