In article <1992Nov25.015556.9579@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
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>In article <JWINSTEA.92Nov24145651@fenris.claremont.edu> jwinstea@news.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov24.213437.15276@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
>>The setroot from my rootdisks and the recently released system-0.98
>>source package is the same as rdev and rootdev - these are all just
>>different names for a program that Werner Almesberger wrote some time
>>ago. 
>
>Would it be possible to at least get quickie manpages written for these
>basic undocumented system utils? At the very least they could identify the
>program and give the expected arguments. There is a problem, I think, with
>MCC and SLS distributions not carrying man pages for these rudimentary utils,
>when it could take the authors all of 15 minutes to write something up.

Yes, but no one ever wants to write them.

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>
>If someone wants man pages for one or more of these basic quickie system
>utils that are lacking man pages, send mail to me and I'll write them up
>really quick. 

Someone makes an offer like this on c.o.l about once a month.  "If
someone wants..."  OF COURSE SOMEONE WANTS.  I don't mean to sound
rude, but we are seeing this a little too often.  If you have the
time/resources/knowledge/inclination to write docs, you don't need
c.o.l's permission to do it.

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>I don't know which of these simple system utils (such as who, rdev, etc.)
>are missing man pages, 

Get system-0.98.tar.Z the Jim Winstead put together.  They ALL need
man pages.

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>and plus I need to talk to the author(s) to get their
>names and a rundown of what the program does and the available options.

See the CREDITS file.  All the programs are very short and reading the
source is the best way of figuring out the options.

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>Thanks. :)
>
>mdw
>
>-- 
>Matt Welsh    mdw@tc.cornell.edu        +1 607 253 2737
>  "We're going away now. I fed the cat."

Good luck.  

- Ken