On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 20:59:43 -0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > >> Thanks uwe! Are you planning to upstream all these changes? > > > >This is our mdocified bin/awk.1, upstream is dist/awk.1 that is > >-man-old, so I'm not sure how to proceed. Also most of the changes I > >made are strictly mdoc related. POSIX has quite a bit more elaborate > >awk man page that spells out many details, importing some more of that > >might be good but it's somewhat heavy, prescriptive prose and requires > >some editing for better readibility, IMHO - not something I feel > >qualified to do. > > Ok thanks. I will check with upstream on replacing theirs with ours.
Not without some editorial efforts. OpenBSD has their own additions to the man page, e.g. documenting that literal space as FS value (the default) is magic, etc. It would be nice to collate those. I don't have a fresh FreBSD tree handy to check their version. -uwe