Re: Subdirs of man*/ (was: [PATCH] ascii.7: chase down History to earliest) (refers: man -M tcl)

[Alex Colomar]

On 10/17/22 13:10, Alex Colomar wrote:
> [CC += groff@, since it was CCd in the old conversation referred to here]
>
> Hi Ingo,
>
> On 7/27/22 17:32, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>  > Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 06:17:40PM +0200:
>  >> I wondered for a long time what happens if you create subdirs within a
>  >> man? section.  How do man(1)s handle 
> </usr/share/man/man3/python/foo.3>?
>  > On *BSD systems, that typically means:
>  >
>  >    The architecture-specific library function foo(3)
>  >    for the "python" hardware architecture.
>  >
>  > Here are a few examples from OpenBSD:
>  >
>  >    /usr/share/man/man1/sparc64/mksuncd.1
>  >    /usr/share/man/man2/armv7/arm_sync_icache.2
>  >    /usr/share/man/man2/i386/i386_iopl.2
>  >    /usr/share/man/man3/octeon/cacheflush.3
>  >    /usr/share/man/man3/sgi/get_fpc_csr.3
>  >    /usr/share/man/man4/alpha/irongate.4
>  >    /usr/share/man/man4/amd64/mpbios.4
>  >    /usr/share/man/man4/luna88k/cbus.4
>  >    /usr/share/man/man4/macppc/openpic.4
>  >    /usr/share/man/man4/powerpc64/opalcons.4
>  >    /usr/share/man/man4/riscv64/sfgpio.4
>  >    /usr/share/man/man5/sparc64/ldom.conf.5
>  >    /usr/share/man/man8/hppa/boot.8
>  >    /usr/share/man/man8/macppc/pdisk.8
>  >    /usr/share/man/man8/sgi/sgivol.8
>  >    /usr/share/man/man8/sparc64/ldomctl.8
>
>
> On 10/17/22 03:22, наб wrote:
> > Cf., well, the UNIX Programmer's Manual:
> >    
> > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v1/UNIX_ProgrammersManual_Nov71.pdf
> > PDF page 191; yes, the typographical convention here is insane, and
> > the contemprary-correct way to refer to this page from within the manual
> > would be /just/ "/etc/ascii", but, given the context, "/etc/ascii (VII)"
> > makes the most sense to me
>
> I just saw this and wondered if the subdirs in the past were used as 
> just part of the manual page name...
>
> I have been remembering every now and then the discussion we had about a 
> hypothetical -M, and think we need it or something like that.  I guess 
> subdirs are not possible nowadays because of the translation usage, but 
s/translation/arch/
> I'm curious about if that was different in the past or what.
>
> Does anyone know?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex


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