Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011008204408.02016ab8@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 20:55:37 -0700 To: Christopher Currie , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: /usr/man/man2 and /usr/man/man4 directories missing In-Reply-To: <20011008224019.A863@mamet.westofhouse.net> References: <3BB936E7.6060900@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Christopher C., This is a bit of a pet peeve for me, so I just have to chime in, even if Christopher F.'s replies make it moot in this context. Please, PLEASE don't use source code as an input to or as a specificational / definitional source of information for producing written documentation. That is, by definition, putting the cart before the horse. I won't go on, but that's such a pervasive misconception (that an implementation defines a specification) and it happens to be one that bothers me supremely, so I just had to say my piece. Thank you for listening. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 19:40 2001-10-08, Christopher Currie wrote: >There was supposedly a thread about docs recently, but I've had a hard time >tracking it down... > >Therefore, I'd like to take a stab at writing the man pages for these calls. >The best references are going to be the actual source code... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/