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by anjbe 12y ago
USB images are available on the mirrors (installXX.fs).
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> But is it really all used? I have never heard of searching man pages by e.g. return type (in section 2 or 3 I assume this would be) For example, here’s a search for “functions beginning with ‘str’ and with return type size_t”: http:&#
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Yes, PDF output is one place where mandoc is not as good as groff/heirloom yet. (The other major one being support for generic preprocessors and other macro sets.) Mandoc works very well for terminal output, HTML output, and semantic s
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by anjbe 12y ago
Mandoc, which is what the BSDs and some other systems use for formatting manpages, has very good HTML output. In fact, the program used to be named “mdocml” because it was written to be a mdoc‐to‐HTML converter. Unfortunately the -man macro
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by anjbe 12y ago
You can do that with Mandoc too, although the quality of the PDF output is not as nice. What makes Mandoc less of a typesetting system than Groff is that it supports fewer macro sets (mdoc, man, eqn, and tbl, the macro sets commonly used in
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by anjbe 12y ago
There are a couple of other troff implementations in use today. Mandoc is very new and focuses on providing a complete solution for a system that uses manpages: it renders manpages in the terminal or to HTML on the fly, provides a database
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by anjbe 12y ago
> What I meant is writing new pages in a newer language (insert random lightweight text based format, preferably one where the 'see also' part is linkable) A little bit of manpage history: Roff has been around since the beginni
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by anjbe 12y ago
In contrast, at my university the football team had two 1-11 seasons in a row, and the head coach was finally fired after losing the first four games of the next season. It took so long because the school was wary of the $1.4 million cost o
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by anjbe 12y ago
It is like Sega v. Accolade, in the sense that it’s clear abuse of IP law to limit competition. But there are two major differences: Although there were accusations of unauthorized copying in Sega v. Accolade, the major issue was that Sega
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by anjbe 12y ago
I’m partial to his Master’s thesis, “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits.” It literally invented digital computing. As an electrical engineering student it blows me away that one guy’s thesis (he was 21!) can be fundamental
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by anjbe 12y ago
Well, the original reasoning behind Han unification was the (horrendously impractical) idea of storing all of Unicode in 16 bits. Most of these characters were added later; you can tell because their codepoints are greater than U+FFFF.
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by anjbe 12y ago
I’ve never been a fan of this sort of thing. The Unicode characters in these font blocks are not letters for making words; at least the double‐struck, fraktur, bold, italic, and bold italics are semantically for use in mathematical equation
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by anjbe 12y ago
Last month at EuroBSDCon, Marc Espie gave a neat talk describing some of the performance improvements he’s made to OpenBSD’s Make (and some positive words about Ninja as well) – http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2
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by anjbe 13y ago
I have to take issue with TldrLegal’s summary of the ISC license: https://tldrlegal.com/license/-isc-license It starts out with, “The ISC license is not very well regarded because it has an “and/or” wording that m
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by anjbe 13y ago
That’s only part of the list of insults. Sudo has more, and you can see them on any platform by setting “Defaults insults” in /etc/sudoers. See the sudoers(5) manpage.