Re: flexfax: HFAXD access control

[Tim Rice <tim@trr.metro.NET>]

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Nico Garcia wrote:

> 
[snip]
> 
> > has something todo with fax software and can cause such trouble
> > mixing up the files.
> 
> In and of itself, it's not confusing. The fact that the man page for
> the HylaFAX "hosts" is fundamentally available only by typing "man -M
> $HYLAFAXMANDIR" where HYLYFAXMANDIR is wherever you have configured
> the HylaFAX man pages to exist, is the basic problem.
> 
> Multiple man pages with the same name, even if they are in different
> man directories, *is* asking for confusion, and it doesn't make
> sense to force users to play extra games with their man command
> just to reference such pages. Distinctive system configuration

If only other OS vendors would add the -a option to man like on SCO UNIX.
$ man -a hosts 
would display all "hosts" man pages in $MANPATH.

> files (like /etc/hosts) should not have their names repeated for
> application specific files, especially since they have completely
> different formats and functions.
> 
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> 

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