Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:10:36 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Man-pages in DJGPP packages
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 ahelm AT gmx DOT net wrote:

>  >Please post the list of files which don't seem to be in the right
>  >places or under the right name.  I think most of them are.
> 
> Here we are...
> I spent some time yesterday night checking all the newest versions of
> the packages I have installed. Updating groff to v1.16 fixed lots of 
> problems with incorrect names/locations of man pages (groff has
> lots of man pages and they obviously have been fixed in the latest version).

Yeah, tell me about that ;-)

> (As my web-mailer usually messes up long lines the table is sent as 
> attachment.)

Which is a PITA, unfortunately.  If you want, I can tell you how to
use the DJGPP port of Emacs in conjunction with a PD command-line
mailer to send email from any Windows box.

| bnu211b    | ar ... | man/cat1  | change extension |

I don't think the extension is such an important issue, but I think
that renaming ar.man to ar.1 should be considered for the next port.

| find41b    | xargs              |      1L    |      1    | groff2 | man/cat1  | -> man/cat1l/*1l |

Here I disagree.  The way of keeping these files is not standardized
enough for us to be bothered by following it.  You posted one way of
doing it (the Sun's way), but there are others.  Some systems lump all
*.[1-9]l files into cat/local (and all *.[1-9]n into cat/new).  Others
have separate directories like cat3a and cat3w, but the file names in
there are extensionless.

So I don't see anything wrong in having all the *.1l files in the cat1
directory.  Especially since DJGPP systems don't have the system man
pages installed on them (which was the original motivation for having
a separate `local' directories and *.1l files, to avoid overwriting
the system man pages).

The man pages which install into the info directory are doing so for
historical reasons: DJGPP originally didn't have a man tree (and no
man-page reader).  We are slowly migrating to the man tree; slowly,
because it is not easy to make sure the old pages are removed when the
new are installed in different directories.

Anyway, thanks for the footwork.

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