Proposal: cpuinfo(1)

Joerg Schilling schilling at fokus.gmd.de
Sat Jan 12 05:32:08 PST 2002


>From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at caldera.de>

>On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:48:57PM -0600, Julie wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:25:32PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> > > Is there any reason why the man page does not use standard "man" troff
>> > > macros?
>> > 
>> > They use standard mdoc macros.
>> 
>> Which aren't standard "man" macros.

>They are (since 4.4BSD).

They are a proprietary 4.4BSD format. 

As your program is completely nonportable it makes no difference....
but if you are going to write a portable program it is a really bad
idea to use them as are not present on a typical UNIX system.

Jörg

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