Convention for naming manual pages: .l vs .1

Root Boy Jim rbj at icst-cmr.arpa
Fri Mar 6 07:08:55 AEST 1987


All you people out there are missing the completely obvious!!!
We put all our nonstandard manual sections in /usr/man/man9!!!
Works great! Just type man 9 foo. Trivial hacks to man and catman
will search section 9 by default. Of course, you can't put both
foo.1 and foo.5 into section 9, but then there's always section zero!
More involved hacks would allow ANY numeric manual section. Why not?

	(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell	<rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>
	Why did Paul Simon name his album after Elvis Presley's house?



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