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@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +man was written by John Eaton (jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu). +He does not maintain man anymore - please do not bother +him with remarks about the current version, which is +rather different from the original one. + +man-1.2 was released by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim (zmbenhal@netcom.com). + +man-1.3, man-1.4* and man-1.5* were released by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl). + +In man-1.5 Richard Verhoeven's man2html was added, together with +some scripts by Michael Hamilton. + +man-1.6 and versions following were released by Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi@acm.org). + +In man-1.6 Eric S. Raymond's browser-handoff functionality was added, with +future minor versions planned to cleanup internationalization and cross +platform support (Cygwin, solaris, and perhaps Win32). A bugfixing campaign +is currently underway. + +The current maintainer is Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi@acm.org). + +The current version can usually be found at +http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/ +a backup distribution site is located at +http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lucifred/man/ +releases are also posted to the Metalab site regularly. + +Feedback from distribution packagers is very appreciated. Patches welcome! + +Man versions are codenamed for bats, starting with 1.6e. + +Development releases have an 'RC-' suffix followed by the release +candidate number. Versions released under the 'RC' label are not +to be included in stable distributions (and indeed no one has been +to date - do not be the first to goof up!). + +There is a very different man program, also derived from +John Eaton's original version (by Graeme W. Wilford) +distributed under the name man_db, with version numbers +like man_db-2.3.10. Do not confuse the two, they are +mutually incompatible, although they perform nearly the same job. |