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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!brutus.bright.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!miwok!ntworker.gscorp.com!root From: Charlie ROOT <root@gscorp.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Manual pages sometimes miss information.... Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 03:10:39 +0000 Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content Lines: 32 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951022024358.1055A-100000@ntworker.gscorp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.54.9.190 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII H i! Every now and then when I play around or work with a new Unix flavour I'm always tricked and fooled by the location of such non-important-never-used tools like ping or shutdown. This becomes even more important, if they don't reside on the normal search path and su'ing also doesnt include the 'usual' supervisor admin/tool directories. When I then type "man <offending hopefully not missing program/thing" I usually get a lengthy documentation about all sorts of facts of life, but [under FreeBSD] mostly not the location of the file. NeXTSTEP for example has in allmost all manual pages the full path to the executable, so that man ping reveals NAME: ping - blah blah SYNOPSIS: /usr/etc/ping [-blah blah] DESCRIPTION: blah blah much like FreeBSDs man page, but it only states ping [-blah] in the Synopsis - and so for many other files. Is there a way to ask those nice maintainers of the manual pages to add these kind of path/location information to the manual pages or is it maybe easier to write a program, which runs every now and then through the manual pages and "find / -name <thingy> -print" and captures the information and merges it into the relevant <thingy>manual page? With kind Regards Philipp Ott philipp@gscorp.com,philipp@beagle.co.at