Anton Aylward wrote:
Linda Walsh said the following on 12/18/2013 03:37 PM:
Please note, that the cognitive load even of that example when dealing with "Mail::SpamAssassin" needs to the modules group -- "Mail" and that module name is in CamelCase. Compare with the simplicity of the MAN(1) version.
I agree w/that!... but note: having "man" ignore case is a suse 'extension' that isn't on every platform.
Oh really? I seem to recall it ignoring case on UNIX V7, SYSIII, SYSV, SCO UNIX and others.
Which distribution were you thinking of?
Looking further, it seems it is a SYSV extension... and that BSD derived man is the exception. So I see a bug for MacOS @ http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2820&user=guest&pass=guest that talks about case insensitivity on MacOS, I see it as a question here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/101295/case-insensitive-search-in-ma... And I know it to be the default case on the man program used by 'Cygwin' (appears to be BSD derived). Unfortunately, the BSD acolytes have been working @ POSIX to change various POSIX commands to reflect the BSD quirks. Since there aren't any companies representing the SYSV standard anymore, they find they can push through changes that were met w/resistance before. (Like changing POSIX to be proscriptive (mandating), rather than "descriptive" as it was up to ~2001. Example: used to be you could remove everything UNDER a directory and limit it to the current file system with "rm -fr --one-filesystem DIR/." That functionality was removed to conform with BSD practice to check for "." out-of-sequence in "rm" (i.e. when you do a "rm -fr", it is a depth-first traversal but POSIX dictates that each path component be inspected before traversing it's contents for "." or ".." and fail immediately if it finds such. It used to be that it gave a suppressible error message (-f suppressed the message).
OBTW, Linda. I subscribe to the list. There is no need to cc me when posting to the list.
--- Hey, you have your own domain Anton, surely you know that it is your email application that is directing me to post a copy to you and to the list when I hit reply all. If you setup your email program to insert a reply-to: <listname>, then replies will only be sent to the list. If you don't do that, you are asking for a personal reply when the responder hits "reply" or "reply all". Some modern email programs also provide a non-standard "reply to list" option, but that hasn't made it into the standards yet, that I am aware of... ---- BTW, you didn't mention how you missed having the perl-doc manpages installed but were "going off" on how various perl-related commands didn't have man pages? ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org