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--- Comment #2 from April Chin <april.chin@???> 2012-03-15 23:25:52 ---
On 3/15/2012 9:11 AM, Philip Hazel wrote:
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> --- Comment #1 from Philip Hazel<ph10@???> 2012-03-15 16:11:08 ---
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, April Chin wrote:
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>> For example, the pcre-config(1) manpage (in pcre 8.30) has this section
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>> REVISION
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>> Last updated: 01 January 2012
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>> but its footer has an empty Last change date (manpage for pcre installed
>> on Solaris 11, aka SunOS 5.11):
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>> SunOS 5.11 Last change: 2
> Is that a SunOS thing? On Gentoo Linux the footer contains just
> PCRE-CONFIG(1) at the right hand side.
Yes, it looks like the SunOS/Solaris man macros put
"SunOS 5.11" in the left side of the page footer.
I don't know how the page footers I see in Solaris differ from other OSs,
but I have seen other freeware manpages (perl, gmake, GNU gettext, git)
put a date in
the 3rd argument of the .TH line and also sometimes a name of the package
and version in the 4th argument.
>> The revision date should be added to the .TH line, which currently looks like:
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>> .TH PCRE-CONFIG 1
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>> along with perhaps the string "PCRE<version #>":
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>> .TH PCRE-CONFIG 1 "01 January 2012" "PCRE 8.30"
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>> so the page footers would then list the last change date and pcre version:
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>> PCRE 8.30 Last change: 01 January 2012 2
> I will experiment on Linux and see if that works or breaks things or
> whatever.
Sounds good--thanks!
--April
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