Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages

> > Oh, I get it. Can everyone handle multi-character man sections?
>
> That is how, for example, the X system does their man pages. There are
> sections "1x", etc. Except that now that I look on my RH linux system
> they are squirreled away in /usr/X11/man/man1/, etc so I must have
> seen that on another system. Perhaps my old Alpha boxes??

SCO does that. Section 1M.

>
> > I would like to use existing sections, rather than do our own. I found
> > I had to modify the man page search to look in a manl, and others may
> > have the same problem.
>
> Yes, that is a consideration. It is easy to automate adding a new
> section (like "1sql" or "1p" or ??) for packages, but is something the
> admin needs to remember to do on a from-source installation.
>
> otoh, it does eliminate the possibility of man page pollution if we
> manage to have the same man page name as some other existing page.
> *That* would be a bad thing. And in general adding ~75 man pages to
> existing sections is a pretty big load...

Oh, good point. How do we get around that. I don't see another
existing section that looks appropriate for SQL commands.

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