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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tardy man-pages
Date: 22 Oct 1996 23:37:43 GMT
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le@put.com (Louis Epstein) wrote:

> I just got the new Complete FreeBSD book with 540 pages of man pages.
> I note that the man pages for sh speak of the release of 4.4BSD as
> coming in the future...when will this be revisited and revised?

Certainly never...  Well, how about this: Find 20 more of this,
promise us to fix all of them (plus other things in the future), and
bang!, you'll immediately get commit privileges for this!

:-)  Ehm, no kidding...  simply do it!

> Did it gte the hoped-for PIOSIX compliance?

Certainly not.  However, Steve Price did a very fine job in cleaning
up several bugs in the shell recently.  I think it's doing much better
now, without being that monstrous as some other /bin/sh clones ;)
are...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)