Barry L. Kline spake the following on 7/10/2006 2:39 PM: > Scott Silva wrote: > >> Since programmers are notorious for putting off the documentation, it is very >> common to have man pages not completely in sync with a program. > > That's one area where OpenBSD is far superior to Linux... the man pages > are considered to be *the* authoritative documentation for any program. > Any inaccuracies or incompleteness is considered to be a serious bug in > the program. > > Barry That is why so much code is ported from the BSD's, at least in the early days. Even Microsoft got most of it's TCP/IP stack from BSD. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!