CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src
Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> Sun, 9 Aug 2026 10:22:40 -0600 (MDT)
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CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: [email protected] 2026/08/09 10:22:40 Modified files: share/man/man7 : man.7 Log message: Some corrections and updates in the introductory paragraph: * From 1979 to 1989, not only AT&T UNIX used man(7), but so did all other Unix-like systems including BSD, SunOS, and all the others. * While the statement that man(7) was "purely presentational" was mostly (though not entirely) true when written, it is no longer accurate. A number of semantic macros have since been added, even though far less systematically than in mdoc(7). * Mention the situation in Linux and GNU roff. Knowing about that is relevant for all, including our users, because it means people will continue to find many man(7) pages in the wild, including some that will fail badly with old versions of groff(1). * Point to GNU roff documentation for the unlikely case that someone sees themselves forced to write new man(7) code. About half of the the ideas and a few wordings were suggested to me by G. Branden Robinson.